Critics (Rossetti)

Question 1

Women’s Rights

Question 2

Christiansen

Answer 2

Only maids can hear the goblins cries

Question 3

Avery

Answer 3

From the Antique is an unflinching expression of despair, sense of longing caught in repetition, annilihilation is preferred

Question 4

Mold

Answer 4

Rossetti wrote poems that give a vibrant voice to females despite harsh quality of life as a Victorian woman

Question 5

Rosenblum

Answer 5

In adolescent a woman must make herself or pretend to be an alluring object
Famous of speaking of silence and oblivion

Question 6

Religion

Question 7

Christiansen

Answer 7

A christian message about temptation and fall

Question 8

Christiansen (Laura)

Answer 8

She is Milton’s depiction of Eve in Paradise lost, the eating of the fruit represents biblical descriptions of souls in torment, Laura defiles herself in front of a religious community as she cuts her hair, Laura is under the new testament where there is a view of forgiveness and redemption

Question 9

Christiansen (Lizzie)

Answer 9

Lizzie equivalates to the virgin mary, Lizzue is the Christ figure even though Laura has a crown of thorns

Question 10

Christiansen (Jeanie)

Answer 10

Jeanie must die under the old testament where death is the end result to sin

Question 11

Scholl

Answer 11

Rossetti challenges and reconstructs the Christian ideas of redemption, Laura’s need for salvation is not a result of sinfulness but a dissatisfaction with her society

Question 12

Avery

Answer 12

Rossetti uses biblical interpretations to display subservience to men

Question 13

Forbidden desires

Question 14

Christiansen (Laura)

Answer 14

Laura’s enlightenment is a narcissistic fantasy of fulfillment

Question 15

Love and marriage

Question 16

Christiansen (Laura)

Answer 16

Laura not attending to chores places her out of the domestic sphere lowering her marital value. Laura represents the experience with a domestic reality.

Question 17

Christiansen (Lizzie

Answer 17

Lizzie hides in the safety of her own home, fearful of sexual experiences)

Question 18

Jennings

Answer 18

Rossetti writes of reciprocal love

Question 19

Harrison

Answer 19

No idea regarding the fulfillment of earthly love

Question 20

Sex and innocence

Question 21

Christiansen (Goblins)

Answer 21

The goblin men are both oral and aural in nature, they are harmless creature that represent animalistic lust, the goblin carry various fruits that resemble female and male sex organs

Question 22

Christiansen (Laura)

Answer 22

Laura has an active role in her own downfall with the cutting of her own hair, hair cutting illustrates castration, Laura has no moral compass, Laura’s detorioration forces Lizzie out of the safety of her domestic existence

Question 23

Christiansen (Jeanie)

Answer 23

She is the archaic belief of fallen women dying early

Question 24

Scholl

Answer 24

Rossetti radically steers away from equating female sexuality with sinfulness

Question 25

Scholl (Victorian women)

Answer 25

Women are too pure and sacred to share disgusting lust afflicted with men, sexual activity causes reproductive organs to malfunction, a hymen unbroken possesses an innocent integrity that Eve enjoyed before the Fall (the post-lapsarian view)