Goblin Market Flashcards
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Structure for Goblin Market
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Varying metre
Switches between dactyl and trochaic
Chaotic
A struggle to maintain sanity > just like Rossetti and her religious struggle
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Context
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Religion: Garden of Eden - tempted by the fruits and giving in to temptation.
Religion: Lizzie submits to the abuse of the goblin men in order that she save her sister from death and give her the hope of a new life (a Christ-like sacrifice to redeem her sister’s ‘sin’).
Feminism: Whether or not, in view of Lizzie’s Christ-like redemption of her sister, Goblin Market can be viewed as feminist is the basis for several areas of debate.
