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101976 English Literature - Theme of sisterhood in Christina Rossetti’s The Goblin Market
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Running head: ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER 1830Annotated bibliography- Theme of sisterhood in Christina Rossetti’s The Goblin MarketName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER 18301. Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market” on the topic of SISTERHOODSource 1: Fulmer, Constance M. "Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Cultureby Jill Rappoport."Victorian Periodicals Review46, no. 2 (2013): 279-281.DescriptionThis source highlights different and wide ranging perspectives of Jill Rappoport towards“giving”. However, the perspectives are women-oriented. Through the statements of Jill, thewomen of the Victorian culture have encountered upgradation from the practice of looking afterthe needs, demands and requirements of her family. This upliftment has resulted in safeguardingtheir rights and pushing them towards empowerment. Perceiving these aspects from ChristinaRossetti’s The Goblin Market, portrayal of Lizzie and her sister within the market is consideredas the commercial devour of their individuality. The pennies, which the sisters pay for buying thejuicy fruits is exchanged for the seduction, which the goblins offer. The perspective of the earliersentence destroys the purity of sisterhood. SummaryThe pathetic condition of women maintains continuity even in the Victorian era. Inabilityto express their desires and longings were trapped under the commercialization with their respectand individuality. However, Jill, through her propositions in this source provides anempowerment to the Victorian era. Browsing through the different interpretations of “exchange”,Fulmer, being the mouthpiece of Jill, gifts women back their rights of freedom and liberty. Inview of this gift, the sisters in The Goblin Market become ordinary girls, going to the market toget grocery. In terms of these connotations, exchange is only the transactions between sisterslike Laura and Lizzie and the vegetable sellers.
2ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER 1830Evaluation“Alliance” in terms of women is interpreted only as marriage. “Exchange” means givingthe daughters in marriage in exchange of the getting a son-in-law and a share of their family.Both these interpretations nullify the individual sentiments of the girls and women in terms ofmarriage. However, this source acts as an empowerment for the women in terms of safeguardingtheir rights. This is one of the greatest strengths of the source. Portrayal of the women in thecommercial transactions of the market can be interpreted as the transactions of their dignity andself-respect. In terms of this connotation, the strength turns into weakness, adding to thecomplexities of women amidst the pressurizations of the patriarchal society. Attaching the aspect of the sisters in The Goblin Market, exchange of pennies for buyingfruits can be just the satisfaction of hunger. This need fulfillment is devoid of the exchange ofbodies for experiencing pleasure. Viewing it from the other perspective, the goblins or thevegetable sellers seduce the sisters for making bodily transactions by buying the juicy fruits. Thesecond perspective is a kind of suppression for the women by the goblins in terms of gobbling upthe sisters. Typical evidence of this lies in impositions towards squeezing the juices on the bodyof the sisters and devouring them. In view of their transcendence into the other world, due to theintake of hypnotized and seductive juice, the sisters can be grouped into a class of women,struggling with their futile fates. Herein lays the appropriateness of the word “culture” in termsof projecting the patriarchal culture of the Victorian era. The aspect of sisterhood, projected inthe poem can be related with the feminist groups, which fought for the freedom of the womenfrom the shackles of patriarchy. Here lies the gifting of women their rights to vote, is justified.
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