Christina Rossetti Critiques
In Kathryn Dorothy Marocchino’s evaluation of Christina
Rossetti’s Goblin Market she describes the poem as displaying many of
Rossetti’s religious views such as resisting temptation before marriage.
Marocchino believes that the poem which shows a strong and
intimate relationship between sisters is somewhat representative of Rossetti’s
own sister Maria who became an Anglican nun. Neither the sisters married “bears
a resemblance to the close relationship between Christina (who never married)
and Maria (who became an Anglican nun).”
Marocchino also believes that Laura who gives into
temptation and eats the fruit will turn into a goblin, this implies that
Marocchino believes that the goblins are the prostitutes she backs this up by
saying when Laura ate the fruit as she began to turn goblin like. “Begins
gnashing her teeth and weeping uncontrollably, revealing her own potential to
become one of the goblins herself”
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