English 1022E Lecture 2: Goblin Market
1 Apr 2016
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Rite of passage rite de passage: resisting temptation of the goblins, one falls (laura), and the other does not (lizzie) Goblin = 1 20 shillings connection between money and the goblins in the poem: sexual humiliation. Laura is an eve gure, lizzie is a christ/adam gure: lizzie saves laura, redeems her from her sins. Rossetti was tempted to have an a air with a married man, maria (her sister) stopped her, helped her resist that temptation: woman of the victorian era were sexually repressed it was frowned upon to have sex. Christina rossetti was a perpetually repressed woman and her sexual fantasies served as form of release throughout her poetry. In victorian england, prostitution was a huge issue: 1000 women out of 2. 5 million citizens in london. !1: you could not walk through public areas without tripping over prostitutes. Acts to abolish prostitution: they all blame the women.
