The Dissection Of A Coquette's Heart Summary

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In Joseph Addison’s “The Dissection of a Coquette’s Heart,” he satirizes the frivolous personality of some young women at the time of the article’s publication. The heart of the coquette contains two distinct areas: the pericardium, or outward case, guarding what ultimately lies in the midst of her heart, her only love. The Pericardium of the coquette’s heart guards her emotions from the extravagant and gregarious life she lived. Upon inspection of this case, the group of observers find it covered in countless tiny scars of points, darts, and arrows, but not one of them “had entered and pierced the inward Substance.” By the sheer multitude of scars that attempted to pierce her heart, it seems reasonable to conclude that this woman served

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