"Focus is not on the possibility of fulfilling earthly love, or upon the betray in love, but rather renunciation."
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"emphasises the way in which women might be trapped by convention."
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"A quiet and observant child with her own way of life already fixed in her head."
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"a woman such as Laura may fall and yet rise again, as long as a 'sister' like Lizzie is there to save her."
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"in a patriarchal culture, a woman inevitably experiences herself as object and other."
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"her women are often- and increasingly so - strong rather than weak, and that Rossetti herself was a conscious observer and critic of the 'option' open to Victorian women."
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"Rossetti had radically rewritten the fall of Eve in terms of the social and spiritual abuse of women which she sees around her and includes more than a hint that the male gender oppression to be interpreted as original sin."
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"Rossetti creates analogies between the biblical description of salvation and in the social context of Victorian [England]."
