Topic > An Analysis of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

In “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, she had given a message to her readers to understand, and they should beware of temptations, young women should not talk to men strange , and that sisters should love each other. This poem is about two sisters, Lizzie and Laura, who fell into temptation in the Victorian era. Gender roles play a role, where the male is dominant in the society. Rossetti outlines what the behavior of the female hero should be, although his theory failed but to some extent his efforts were successful. In the Victorian era Rossetti included religious values, death and sexual resistance in her poetry during the time when women worked hard and obeyed men, which could also have had an influence. Every evening along Brookside, Laura ran and bowed her head to listen, and Lizzie crouched beside her sister covering her blushing sister. Laura impulsively listens to the goblins singing "come buy, come buy." “Stay close, we must not look at the goblin men, we must not buy their fruits: who knows on what ground they fed their hungry t...