Goblin Market
- Created by: Becca Newman
- Created on: 27-01-20 14:48
View mindmap
- Goblin Market
- ADH
- 'Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine'
- Consumerism - Nora's addiction to buying little sweets and being unable to stop buying
- 'I ate and ate my fill, Yet my mouth waters still'
- Consumerism - Nora's addiction to buying little sweets and being unable to stop buying
- 'Longed but had no money'
- Essentially this is Nora's attitude when attempting to save Torvald
- Like Laura, Nora cheats the system (fraud + offering hair instead of money)
- Essentially this is Nora's attitude when attempting to save Torvald
- 'She clipped a precious golden lock'
- Nora potentially had to sacrifice her reputation to save Torvald
- 'Undone in mine undoing'
- Not only does Nora commit herself to damage by keeping a secret
- She also commits her whole family to sacrificing their reputation if the secret came out
- But she loved Torvald so she had to
- She also commits her whole family to sacrificing their reputation if the secret came out
- Not only does Nora commit herself to damage by keeping a secret
- 'Tender Lizzie could not bear To watch her sister's cankerous care'
- Christine's attitude towards Nora' secret
- Encourages her to tell Torvald
- Christine's attitude towards Nora' secret
- 'The wicked, quaint fruit-merchant men'
- This is who Krogstad is towards Nora - he threatens her and forces her into admitting her secret
- 'To fetch one if one goes astray'
- What Christine does for Nora - trying to keep her from straying form societal norms
- 'Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine'
- Consumerism + Capitalism
- The Goblins represent business men who will cheat you of your money
- Selling + consuming can be seen as the exploitation of the British colonies around the world
- 'Come buy, come buy' - materialism
- How inescapable Victorian capitalism was
- 'Longed but had no money' - represents the poor who had been taken advantage of
- They had no money to buy all the wonderful things they were tempted with
- Goblin men = oppressors + despots
- They had no money to buy all the wonderful things they were tempted with
- The Title
- A criticism of capitalist society and it's damages
- Sexual Desire
- 'Buy from us with a golden curl'
- Sacrificing a part of herself for men
- Loss of virginty
- Giving into temptation life Eve in the garden of Eden
- Sacrificing a part of herself for men
- 'Do you not remember Jeanie...she pined and pined away'
- Sexual desire for women was a death sentence in the Victorian era
- 'Buy from us with a golden curl'
- Women + Sisters
- 'Maids' - traditionally meant virgins
- 'Come but, come buy' - pressure on women to be sexual even though society deemed it wasn't appropriate until after marriage
- Men could have sex when they wanted with who they wanted
- Women could only have sex in marriage, and women who had sex with men out of wedlock would be condemned, not the men.
- Men could have sex when they wanted with who they wanted
- The two young girls were out without a chaperone - unusual independence for the era
- Religion
- Lizzie = a Christ like figure (guiding the way for others)
- The goblin men symbolise the temptation of sin
- ADH
Comments
No comments have yet been made