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Goblin Market Thesis

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In most cases the “monster(s)” are perceived as the “others,” which at the beginning of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market seemed to hold true. At the start of the poem, lines such as “We must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their fruits” (42-46, Rossetti) help set a tone of us versus them. Throughout most of the beginning of the poem both Laura and Lizzie are described as being cautious and weary of the goblin men trying to get maidens to buy their fruits. Rossetti’s word choice included an abundance of “us” and “their” with more negative connotations surrounding “their”. Though after Laura gives into temptation and bites into the fruit, her withdrawal symptoms isolate her from her sister who has not yet eaten the fruits from the goblin
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The goblins are described as enchanting and delightful in the beginning of poem, they cry with sing song qualities, “come buy, come buy,” and tempt Laura with voices “as smooth as honey” (line 3 and 108). They are dangerous because they seem so innocent and harmless, when in reality they are not. Lizzie tells Laura to “remember Jeanie,” someone who ate the fruit and “pined and pined away,” thus dying from the act (147 155). The rules are clear because Lizzie explains them to Laura repeatedly. They are to “not peep at [the] goblin men,” and to “not buy their fruits” because “their gifts would harm [them]” (line 49 43 66).

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