Split Sisters and Split Personalities of Goblin Market Essay -- Goblin

Split Sisters and Split Personalities of Goblin Market I have 50 different personalities, and still Im l one and only(a)ly (Amos). Perhaps everyone is truly composed of multiple personalities embodied within one whole. Whether these split personalities are actual or purely metaphorical, no one human being has a single sided mind, and a single sided position on everything. Within the brain many battles are raged amid opposing sides of issues, between the personalities. Goblin Market is one of Christina Rosettis sister poems, a form in which she used sisters to represent different aspects of the split personality that was caused by opposed attitudes and mixed emotions towards love (Bellas 66). The 2 opposing young sides of a single persons brain are separated into two different beings, two sisters. During the poem, the two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, contrast and become contrasting opinions and factions on love, femininity, and sensuality, eventually maturing and reconciling their conflicting beliefs into a mutual ground. Lauras love of the fruit is insatiable (Mayberry 90). Lizzie is a more Victorian image of love cautious, timid, and tedious (Mayberry 43). In the Victorian days respectable women were expected to be good Christian women. Rossetti is a evidence of these expectations. In reference to the awkward moral at the end of the poem Martine Brownley says. Undoubtedly that was the only way that the quiet devoted recluse could tolerate what she had procured in the poem. The woman who pasted pieces of paper over the more explicit lines in Swinburnes poetry could never have faced the actual implications of the stunningly good parable which somehow welled up from her unconscious self ... ...look for the first time in her life. The Victorian element of the 1800s has been brought down to a more reasonable take aim through Lizzie. The wild feminist in Laura has been tamed by the life threatening experience and the overpowering devotion of her sister. Wor ks Cited Amos, Tori. Tori Amos in Conversation. Baktabak Recordings 1997. Bellas, Ralph A. Christina Rossetti . Illinois State University, Twayne Publishers Boston, 1977. Harrison, Anthongy H. Christina Rossetti in Context. University of NC Press, Chapel Hill and London 1988. Mayberry, Katherine J. Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London. 1989. Brownley, Martine Watson, Love and Sensuality in Christina Rossettis Goblin Market. Essays in belles-lettres 1979 Western Illinois University Vol. No. 2 Rpt in TCLC.