Throughout Christina Rossetti poem, Goblin Market, there is a running theme of addiction, and the overwhelming effect that it can have on a person’s body and soul. In the poem, two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, are tempted by goblins selling luscious fruit. Only Lizzie becomes overwhelmed with her desire, and succumbs to this temptation. Upon trying one of the fruits she is unable to stop until she has consumed so much of it that she physical hurts. Thus begins the addiction, one that she thinks is she is in control of, but will quickly spiral out of control. In one line Rossetti writes of the Laura’s belief that she is in control and that she will simply buy some more of the fruit the next day, to quench her desire, “I ate and ate my fill, Yet