In Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market” at the end there is a statement
‘For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.’ (Rossetti 562-567)
The statement essentially explains there is no relationship that can compare to the unexplainable bond sisters share. The two pairs of sisters Laura and Lizzie from Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” and Elinor and Marianne from Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” fulfill the statement in the end of “Goblin Market” highly and have shocking similarities. Lizzie and Lauren from Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” have a strong sisterly bond and
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The incident in the poem that proves how the sisters are clearly different is the way each of them react when they hear the goblin men and the fruit market. Laura is the curious one with the wandering soul and Lizzie is the protective, state minded one. Lizzie was especially looking out for Lauren when she said “Oh”, cried Lizzie, “Laura, Laura, / You should not peep at goblin men” (Rossetti 48-49). But Laura gets sucked in by the goblin men and ends up giving them a lock of her hair for some fruit. After Laura eats the fruit they are put through some stormy weather which puts their relationship to the test. Soon after Laura eats the fruit she begins to waste away. Laura stopped eating and doing her chores all she wanted was some goblin fruit. Lizzie became increasingly concerned “Tender Lizzie could not bear / To watch her sisters cankerous care, / Yet not to share” (299-301). Lizzie became so worried that she decided to go to the market to see what was going on which relates to the statement of how a sister can bring the other back when …show more content…
Elinor Dashwood is the oldest of the two and is 19 years old. Elinor is the more composed and affectionate one. Marianne who is 17 years old is the polar opposite of her sister. She is spontaneous, has excessive sensibility and is a hopeless romantic. The incident that really makes the sisters comparable to the statement at the end of Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” poem all begins when Marianne tumbles down a hill and Willoughby rescues her. Their relationship after that flourishes an they begin to spend a lot of time together getting closer and closer and falling involve - or so Marianne thought. Willoughby suddenly announces he has to depart to London for business matters which turns out to be for another women. Willoughby abandons Marianne for the wealthy Miss Sophia Grey which absolutely destroys Marianne when she finds out. Marianne especially related to the statement when she goes through a storm literally and figuratively with Willoughby. Marianne is so upset she purposefully goes for a walk in the rain and catches a cold and becomes terribly ill. When Willoughby hears of this news he comes to visit to see how Marianne is doing and to explain himself and most importantly seek forgiveness. Elsinore replies to Willoughby by saying “If that is all, you may be satisfied already,— for
Chapter forty-four in Sense and Sensibility is an emotional confession of Mr. Willoughby to Elinor when he comes to check on a sick Marianne. While this scene is intended to pardon Willoughby, many pieces of this chapter show how undeserving he still is of Elinor and Marianne’s forgiveness.
Of the two sisters Lizzie and Laura, Laura is the one whose curious desires get the best of her. She and her sister encounter the goblin men and Lizzie just “thrust a dimpled finger / In each ear, shut her eyes and ran” (67 – 68); however, Laura’s curiosity gets the best of her and she chooses to stay: “Curious Laura chose to linger / Wondering at each merchant man” (69 – 70). These goblin men are selling fruit, and once Laura gets her hands on it, she is hardly able to stop herself. Quenching her desire is overwhelming for her, so much so that when she is finally done she “knew not was it night or day” (139). When she arrives home later, she tells her sister, “I ate and ate my fill, / Yet my mouth waters still; / Tomorrow night I ...
The poem opens up with the goblins crying over the wide array of fruit they have. The goblins list “apples and quinces, lemons and oranges, plump unpeck’d cherries,” and many other fruits that they have to offer to whichever young maids are willing to buy (lns. 5-7). When Laura finally brings herself to buy fruit from the goblin men, she finds that she only has “a precious golden lock” to offer the goblins in trade for their fruit (ln. 126). Laura’s golden lock not only represents the real gold she does not have, but it also represents the “surrender [of] her body” (Rappoport). It is after this point that the reader starts to see Laura’s decline in physical and emotional health. Not only does the payment lead to her decline, but also the eating of the fruit. The reader can see the fruit as a specific symbol for “the biblical fruit that tempts Eve into sin,” or just as the overall sexual obstacles that women struggle with (Goblin 100). The implication that the fruit represents sexual sin can be noted in the way that only “maids heard the goblins cry” (ln. 2). Since the goblin were only men, and their cries only heard by women, it can be concluded that the fruit they offer symbolizes the sexual temptation that men impede on women that leads them “away from chastity and virtue” (Goblin 100). Both of these actions independently represent something else- the offering of hair representing the loss of her
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"Some mothers might have encouraged intimacy from motives of interest...and some might have repressed it from motives of prudence...but Mrs. Dashwood was alike uninfluenced by either consideration. It was enough for her that he appeared to be amiable, that he loved her daughter, and that Elinor returned the partiality" (13).
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