And the text highlights the importance of family values and sibling bonds.
Overall, Goblin Market serves as a metaphor for sexual promiscuity and the way in which the concepts of both virginity and purity were tied together to personal identity and sense of self. This suggests that giving up one’s purity and innocence for the sake of temptation or pleasure isn’t worth the risk in the end. Laura trades one part of her body in order to indulge in forbidden fruit and when this is done, she suffers due to her actions. The theme of the dangers of sacrificing the chastity which means the relationship between a part of the self in order to indulge in pleasure. And as a result of this, Laura is now nourished and has been given new life. When Lizzie comes back and she invites Laura to taste the fruit she has on her body, this alludes to the same communion ritual Jesus Christ took part with his disciples. This time shows the parallel between Lizzie and Jesus Christ. Another theme shown, similar to the redemptive power of love, is the spiritual love for nourishment. The main theme in the text focuses on Laura’s redemption is facilitated through Lizzie and her sacrifice.Īlthough there were dangers in the market of the goblins, Lizzie takes a risk in order to save Laura from a destiny of pain and suffering because of the love she has for Lizzie. According to the testimonies born in the Victorian era, they were both uniformed and emotionally frigid about sexual matters.Christina Rossetti’s novel, Goblin Market and Other Poems, has some interesting word choices. This pride is linked to the image of the straight male insofar since the men in the Victorian era were seen and considered to be the sex that were do-ers. Another piece of evidence is the pride Dracula has over his warrior heritage. The main pieces of evidence that shows Dracula as an embodiment of the straight male can be found firstly in the harem of the three vampires that live in his castle. It looks like the main character, Dracula, in the novel could be seen as a character that is filled with sexual intensity. Such topics were present in the novel and they were centered on the resistance of the temptation while advising against the inevitable temptation to have a bite of the forbidden fruit.
During this time, sex and homosexuality were very controversial topics and there were emphasis on been put on the importance of using caution and awareness when involving in such matters. The ideas reflected in Dracula focuses on the concepts such as lust and sex as they were viewed in the late 19th and 20th century in what can be seen as a strongly conservative and traditional society. The novel is now rather a time capsule that contains the popular thoughts, ideas, and the beliefs that were present during the Victorian era that paints a picture of what the society was like when the novel was written. Released in 1897, it has all the themes that were popular in the Victorian era. Moreover, the novel explores all the differences between the gender roles through character development. In Dracula, the females are seen and represented as either highly sexual or prudently chaste. Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, explores themes such as sexuality, gender, and women through development of male and female characters. This age produced a vast variety of changes. This age was the beginning for a time of great prosperity in the literature.
They worked to empower women in the field of literature, gaining the recognition and expressing a female consciousness. Many Victorian female writers, such as the Brontes and Mary Ann Evans, started to explore and write about the philosophy of female empowerment and emancipation. Many women, if not all, began and started the fight in order to bring change they wanted to see in their lifetimes. During this time period, the roles of women changed drastically from censored and submissive to educated owners of their own bodies. In the period of Victorian era, which lasted from 1837 to 1901, was a period where female sexuality was suppressed.
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