Helsinger's Argumentative Analysis

However, as time progress, Laura and Lucy’s exploration of sexual desires and/or aggressiveness puts them in a spot of being down upon as they may face dishonor and ostracism from a Victorian perspective. In Goblin Market, Laura is enticed by the goblin men during a visit to the market with her sister Lizzie. Laura’s sister warns her, stating how “[Laura] should not peep at goblin men” (Rossetti 49). However Laura’s curiosity overpowers her sister’s warnings, as she is made unable to resist the luring of the temptations of the goblin men’s fruits. The tasting of the fruit makes Laura a fallen women. Rossetti describes Laura’s diminishing pureness by writing how “[Laura] sucked and sucked and sucked … / … until her lips were sore” (134-36). The fruits of the goblin men have sexual and sensual connotation to them, and Laura who was pressured into tasting the fruit was also unable to resist due to her curiosity and human desires, which changes her into a fallen women. In the Victorian period that Laura is featured in, women are expected to follow a standard of conduct, such as remaining a virgin before marriage. However, Laura is not married

Rossetti depicts fruits in the Goblin Market as all kinds of sexual desires the woman would encounter, and yet she cannot approach or experience. When Laura and Lizzie went to the market they were encountered by temptation as the goblin men saying: “Our grapes fresh from the vine, / Pomegranates full and fine, / Dates and sharp bullaces, / Rare pears and greengages” (Rossetti lines 20-23). The language is seductive as they try to use temptation to make those two women come to them, implying how

In arguing that anti-Confederate southerners played a central role in Confederate defeat, Freehling shifts historical debate to ground that is at once familiar and novel. Historians such as Drew Gilpin Faust and Paul Escott have identified internal disaffection as the primary cause of Confederate defeat while Gary Gallagher has suggested that whites in the Confederacy maintained their support for the government even as military losses ended the war.[1] The South vs. the South expands the scope of inquiry, looking beyond internal fissures within the Confederacy to the divisions in broader southern society. In Freehling's telling, anti-Confederate whites undermined the Confederacy by remaining outside the nation while slaves sapped Confederate

By the time Laura makes the decision to purchase the fruits from the goblins, her hunger has grown so rapidly and strongly for the fruits that she is willing to give up a nearly priceless part of herself to experience their taste. The goblins tell her that because she has no money, she must give up a lock of her golden hair. While this upsets her and she sheds a tear, she does not

In this part, Schlosser demonstrates an alternate side of the fast-food pioneer. In contrasting the ascent of McDonald's and the Walt Disney Company, Schlosser has the capacity delineate Ray Kroc as a keen representative concerned fundamentally, if not singularly, with extending his realm. This story serves as a background for Schlosser's genuine task - which is to light up the maneuver of the contemporary fast-food country. Schlosser successfully exhibits how fast-food organizations, which offer little as far as nourishment, control youthful personalities in an exertion offer their items. These organizations go so far as to depict themselves as trusted companions and prey on educational systems with declining income.

Humans are inherently flawed, but through years have learned from past mistakes to create a more accepting and understanding future. Christina Rossetti understands the need for humans to evolve into a more accommodating society and hopes one day there may be a more prominent culture where people can make mistake and learn from them rather than be banished or shunned. In “Goblin Market”, the downfall of Laura’s character is paralleled to the downfall of Adam and Eve by having both women succumb to the temptations of the fruit they should not have. While Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, Laura was forgiven by Lizzie and was accepted back into society without further punishment.

According to Julie Flygare, in her essay intertwining themes in “Goblin Market” she states that: Rossetti fills "Goblin's Market" with subject matter and themes that has strong religious associations. There is an important theme of temptation similar to Eve's temptation in the Old Testament. Laura is slyly enticed to eat forbidden fruit, which predictably results in great pain and her lose of innocence” (Flygare). Temptation relays the story of woman as falling for the forbidden fruit, which put the world in chaos. “Goblin Market” can be seen as a hint to Eve eating the forbidden fruit and wrecking humanity. As in Temptation that same dynamic is seen, the woman gets curious and is lured away from good through the lusting of something else, which evidently was the bachelor. Yes, many scholars focus on the feminist aspect of the poem, but the allusion to Eve in the garden of Eden is much more prevalent. Although, Temptation didn’t involve fruit, it did however include an aspect that was tempting such as riches, and treasures. It’s almost like an individual selling their soul just to get what they want. The sin aspect is definitely portrayed in this modern film, it stills hold that same meaning as to what the poem “Goblin Market” is trying to denote, which is that sin is everywhere. Plus the idea of women being the main ones involved with sin. Again in the film it made Judith be looked upon as weak, and unable to

It is difficult to cull a satisfying thematic interpretation from Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market." Obvious themes might be "that one should be careful of temptation," or "that little girls should not talk to strange men." One might even go on to the end of the poem and decide the theme is "that sisters should love one another." These are rather trite ideas, however, and while the poem definitely supports them (and they are easily defended with quotations from the text), a more careful look at "Goblin Market" reveals that the poem is fairly complex, and able to support a more revolutionary reading than the ones put forth above. Rather than saying that "Goblin Market" has a

82-85). Desire for the goblins’ exotic fruits proves to be too much of a temptation for Laura and, with her last restraint gone, she trades a lock of her golden hair for the treasures. Why does she shed a tear at this? It is merely a lock of hair, yet its implications are far greater. Laura falls from innocence as she sucks the fruits feverishly. Her act’s sexual connotations are clear as she “sucked and sucked and sucked the more” (l. 134; italics mine). The fruits motif’s importance is highlighted with superlatives such as “sweeter”, “stronger”, and “clearer” (ll. 129-131). This loss of virginity is surreal to Laura, as she “knew not was it night or day” (l. 139), and she wishes to remember this experience with a single kernel-stone from the goblins’ fruits. Can this kernel-stone be a symbol of a goblin’s sperm? As seen later in the poem, it breaks Laura’s heart when this seed does not bear fruit. The enjambment in Laura’s resolution – “tomorrow night I will/Buy more” (ll. 167-168) – clearly indicates how strongly Laura desires to again experience what the goblins have offered her.

Rossetti slips in the implication here that at some point in the future, Lizzie will need to intervene and save Laura from her own undoing. This is the primary reason the Christ allusion is so great for Lizzie. She makes a noble sacrifice for Laura to pull her back from her certain death, and saves her from the sin she committed by giving into temptation. One night, she ventures back to the uncertainty of the market place to obtain more fruit. The goblins have no interest in the silver coin Lizzie carries, however, and they instead maliciously attack and try forcing their fruit upon her. She absolutely resists their assaults, their attempts at gaining power over her, but in the end, temptation is conquered.

Flowers can also be plucked or lose their purity which happens to Laura when she gives in to temptation and eats the fruit the goblin men offer her. Laura’s hair is also compared to gold and her “tears [are] rarer than pearls.” This creates a sexual suggestion that Laura pays the goblin men for her fruit with her body. We later learn that after she loses her virtue in this situation, she almost pays the price with her life. Lizzie, on the other hand, is described to be like a “lily in a flood”.

In Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, she used Laura and Lizzie to represent temptation and desire. While Lizzie suppresses her desire to buy the magical fruits Laura’s

No longer are they interesting, lively, and perhaps even cute amalgamations; suddenly they become wicked and abusive. They will not sell Lizzie the fruit to take away with her; instead they attack, jostle, and abuse her. Smashing their fruit into her face and leave bruises and torn clothing in their wake before running away and hiding; a fairly obvious rape scenario. Lizzie then goes home happy despite the pain of the ordeal and tells Laura to “Come kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices squeezed from goblin fruits for you” (612).

One of the most common interpretations of the fruit is that it represents sexual temptation. Goblins are only men that sell their fruit at the market but only to "maidens" who hear their cry "come buy, come buy". Lizzie is aware of the evil men because of her friend Jeanie who ate the fruit and slowly passed away. Because of this, Lizzie tries to protect her sister and warn her about the goblins, "You should not peep at goblin men...Their offers should not charm us, their evil gifts would harm us.”( Rossetti 49. 65) Despite her sister's warning, Laura cannot resist the temptation. Laura trades a lock of her hair for the fruit, which symbolizes losing her virginity and paying with her body. “Buy from us with a golden curl. She clipp’d a precious golden lock ... Then suck’d their fruit globes fair or red". ( Rossetti 125-128) Laura has never tasted anything like that before and soon she wants more, like an addiction. "Her craving for the fruit becomes like that of an addict, her inability to be satisfied causing her to be completely debilitated. She becomes "listless" (297), and unable to work because her hope of again eating the fruit is destroyed."(MPhill par 3) The "feast of fruit" symbolizes her transition from a maiden

Goblin Market was composed in the mid-eighteenth century, England; therefore, Rossetti’s poem contains the gender roles present during era. The opening lines state the type of characters that will be featured