EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Goblin Market, Crimean War, Crimea
17 Apr 2013
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The victorian : resembles or is typified by the attitudes attributed to the victorian era; especially, prudish, morally strict; old- fashioned, out dated. Change from an agrarian economy to industrial economy. New energy sources: coal and steam power. Led to government regulation and inspection of working conditions. The children in the poem have no innocence, They have bitter adult knowledge of despair to prove it. Victorian age was age of the novel. Three-volume format (victorian triple-deckers ) was standard vehicle of publication. Serialization of stories in newspapers and periodicals: ex. Men belong in public: strong, practical, rational. Women in private sphere: passive, emotional, irrational. Uses details of vampire myth sucking and death. Goblin men threaten them the fruit leaves the women drained, bloodless. Girls are tempted by the fruit of goblins, laura gives in. She gives them her golden curl in exchange of the fruit. She is obsessed by the taste and wants more.
