Gobin Market

In Christina Rosetti’s “ Goblin Market” Rossetti examines a young girls curiosity with the unknown along with the danger and consequences of feeding into that curiosity.

With the beginning of “Goblin Market” establishes the lure of temptation, as we are greeted with “Plump unpecked cherries” and “Bloom-down-cheeked peaches” This can be paralleled to that of Eve and the forbidden fruit in the Garden. Initially Laura states that “We must not look at goblin men/ We must not buy their fruits” just as Eve initially states that “Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it”. However when Laura sees the luscious fruit and Eve sees that the tree is pleasant to the eyes both forget their initial resistance to the temptation. As both of these women partake of their respective “fruits...