‘Goblin Market is first and foremost a poem about hunger and our desire to eat our fill of that which will satisfy us’ ‘Many women attain their heart’s desire: many attain it not’
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Packer - Conflict
‘Laura is destroyed by her own weakness, not by goblin fruit’
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Katherine Mayberry - Character Flaws
Rossetti was ‘justified as a poet as long as she felt her poetry expressed moral truth’
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David Sonstroem - Character Flaws
'appearance of feminine beauty is connected with the theme of love which falls into regularly motifs all suggesting variations of the themes of salvation and damnation' - this critic is saying the appearance of beauty leads to the downfall
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Yoshida - Desire and Temptation
‘Tries to nullify the ominous fatality symbolised by fruit as anachronistic, and to liberate her female characters from the mythic roles in which fruit seems to fix women'
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Cominos - Desire and Temptation
Goblin Market: ‘With the two girls, Lizzie and Laura, Rossetti acknowledges the two extreme perceptions of women as passionless angels and whores’
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Arseneau - Desire and Temptation
Goblin Market: 'This poem has been seen as a feminist manifesto, as a suggestive exploration of sexual temptation, and as an allegory of Eve's temptation in the Garden'
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Card 2
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‘Laura is destroyed by her own weakness, not by goblin fruit’
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Packer - Conflict
Card 3
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Rossetti was ‘justified as a poet as long as she felt her poetry expressed moral truth’
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Card 4
Front
'appearance of feminine beauty is connected with the theme of love which falls into regularly motifs all suggesting variations of the themes of salvation and damnation' - this critic is saying the appearance of beauty leads to the downfall
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Card 5
Front
‘Tries to nullify the ominous fatality symbolised by fruit as anachronistic, and to liberate her female characters from the mythic roles in which fruit seems to fix women'
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