Goblin Market Flashcards
The Objects of Desire - the Fruit
- ‘She suck’d and suck’d and suck’d…she suck’d until her lips were sore’ -
- ‘Plump unpeck’d cherries’ -
The goblin men
- ‘ Come buy, come buy’
- ‘Brother with sly brother’
- “Cat-faced” “rat faced” - animalistic, inhumane, aggressive
Laura is curious
- ‘curious Laura chose to linger’
Effects of eating the fruit
- ‘Her hair grew thin and grey; She dwindled’
- “To-morrow night i will buy more’
- “Writhing as one possess’d she leap’d and sung” it
Lizzie as a moral compass
“Laura, Laura you should not peep at goblin men.”
‘Lizzie covered up her eyes.’
“No,” said Lizzie, “No, no, no…Their evil gifts would harm us”
Lizzie as a sacrificial figure
“Eat me, drink me, love me… For your sake I have braved the glen and had to do with goblin merchant men”
Lizzie is caring
‘Tender Lizzie could not bear to watch her sister’s cankerous care yet not to share’
Lizzie as strong
“Like a rock of blue-vein’d stone Lash’d by tides obstreperously”
‘White and golden Lizzie stood, Like a lily in a flood’
Lizzie and Lauras relationship
‘Locked together in one nest’
‘For there is no friend like a sister’
the end result
‘Afterwards, when both were wives, with children of their own’
Jeanie
“She thought of Jeanie in her grave, who should have been a bride”
“No grass will grow on her grave”
Gilbert and Gubar
- ‘metaphorically eating words’
fruit represents knowledge
doing domestic roles
Fetch’d in honey, milk’d the cows,
giving herself away
’ she clipped a precious golden lock
Laura unable to do domestic duties
She no more swept the house,
Tended the fowls or cows,
