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Essay on Psychological Causes Of Addiction
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In Christina Rossetti’s narrative poem, “Goblin Market”, Laura becomes ill by eating the fruit from the goblin merchants, after her sister, Lizzie, had warned her not to. Since the illness occurs after having been exposed to the fruit and then being denied the fruit because she can no longer see or hear the goblin merchants, Laura’s illness resembles that of addiction and withdrawal symptoms. Lizzie wants to help her sister. “Then Lizzie weighed no more / Better and worse; / But put a silver penny in her purse” (lines 322-324). Before Laura succumbs to her debilitating illness, Lizzie decides to do the only thing she can think of to stop Laura’s suffering – she goes to the Goblin Market with the intention of purchasing fruit from the merchants to bring back to Laura. …show more content…
The chanting of the goblin merchants has a hypnotic quality to it that attempts to mesmerize Lizzie, as well as the reader. It is supposed to be difficult to resist the temptations for the goblin merchants. They are like the snake in the Garden of Eden, and those who have not given into temptation, yet, are like Eve. The temptation to sin is alluring and the means of tempting that the goblins use are seductive – until they become assaulting.
When Lizzie refuses to eat the fruit herself, the goblin merchants physically attack her. “The goblins cuffed and caught her” (424), they “Kicked and knocked her, / Mauled and mocked her” (428-429). The goblin merchants tried to force fruit into her mouth, but she “would not open lip from lip” (431). Whether Lizzie knew she would be attacked or not, she made a sacrifice to save her sister. As a young woman, Lizzie withstood an attack of multiple goblin merchants and returned home to her sister, covered in the juice of the goblin merchants’
With a self-confident tone, he refers to the American natives as “savage, devils” and compares their home to a devil’s home and their tactics to soldiers in Europe, all just to bring attention to the readers. Mary, on the other hand, represents natives as “ravenous beast” showing the typical symptoms from a survivor; anxiety and distress. She uses a prose with the absence of rhetorical ornamentation rejecting literary artifice, sending a clear message though with her own interpretation of things. With a clear binary opposition, good and evil can be found in the same human; she forgets that the Indian may have a reason for the attacks. Edward; however, writes his sermons in a crescendo tone presenting them from a negative point of view provoking a reaction using biblical allusions. Words such as “Hell” and “Torture” are used to awaken the congregation and to provoke a reaction. His sermons are full of imagery, similes, comparisons and metaphors which can be interpreted in different
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s use of diction had effectively implemented the dismissiveness behind an individual’s transition from childhood into adulthood, which had been the central meaning of the poem. Cofer’s uses a rather negative choice of wording in the first line of the poem that being, “My dolls have been put away like dead children”. As the poet decides to use the words “dead children” it brings a sense of gloominess upon the passage. Once the reader continues reading it appears that a connection can be made between the gloominess in the act of putting away the young girl’s dolls like “dead children” to her Quinceanera. Further Along the poem, the pessimism towards the act of maturing is found once again as the poet uses defeatist words such as “poison” when describing the fluids of her body that being blood. It seems that the young girl’s blood symbolizes her menstrual cycle, which effectively marks her entrance into womanhood. When describing the fluids of her body by using the word “poison” it creates a somber image of adulthood as she views her rite of passage as being toxicant. Ultimately, it seems that the poet’s use of diction provides the poem with a solemn tone which ultimately supplies the p...
Eudora is very talented with the use of sensory imagery. She describes her mother and household in terms of foods that have strong tastes, such as blackberries and lemons, which have distinctive aromas. When Eudora arrives at the store later in the work, she is overwhelmed by her grandiose surroundings. She knows she can have whatever she would like, from sodas, to fireworks, to sweets galore. She is enticed to the point where the readers become involved by thinking of what it is they would choose themselves. She uses senses to pull the reader into her story and it makes the story more realistic. However, in the end, this is a fact of life for Eudora: she cannot always have everything she wants. She must choose wisely or face the consequences.
In the Goblin Market there is an odd list of twenty nine different kinds of fruits. Many overwhelmed readers may question why there is so many different kinds of fruit: why not one or two? Just like the overwhelmed reader it may symbolize Laura being overwhelmed by her temptation and desire to eat the different kinds of mouth watering fruit. The fruit is both ripe and the source of decay. The fruit represent opposites: “night vs. day, light vs. dark, summer vs. winter, and life vs. death.”(Krocker) The maidens only hear the goblin cry in the morning and in the evening, never at night. Mornings and evenings are transitional periods, “Twilight is not good for maidens.”(Rossetti 144) Even after Laura cannot hear the goblins anymore, Lizzie still can, but only when “slow evening came” and “before the night grows dark.” The transition symbolizes the transition from a young girl to a woman. Another example of youth to maturity is where the goblins sell the fruit, the brookside a split between land wa...
Of the two sisters Lizzie and Laura, Laura is the one whose curious desires get the best of her. She and her sister encounter the goblin men and Lizzie just “thrust a dimpled finger / In each ear, shut her eyes and ran” (67 – 68); however, Laura’s curiosity gets the best of her and she chooses to stay: “Curious Laura chose to linger / Wondering at each merchant man” (69 – 70). These goblin men are selling fruit, and once Laura gets her hands on it, she is hardly able to stop herself. Quenching her desire is overwhelming for her, so much so that when she is finally done she “knew not was it night or day” (139). When she arrives home later, she tells her sister, “I ate and ate my fill, / Yet my mouth waters still; / Tomorrow night I ...
...re cautious look at "Goblin Market" shows that the poetry is pretty complicated, and able to back up a more innovative studying than the ones put forth above. Rather than saying that "Goblin Market" has a particular concept, I would put forth the idea that it efforts to cope with certain issues Rossetti identified within the cannon of British literary works, and particularly with the issue of how to create a women idol.
Laura falls for the alluring trap of the fruit in “Goblin Market”. This can be used as a reference to several things like drugs. The most prominent connection is to drugs. Once she eats the fruit, she craves more and all she can think about is once she has the chance she’s going to get another fruit to eat. While she looks for it, her senses are dulled to the point that she has practically lost them. ”Listening ever, but not catching/ The customary cry, / “Come buy, come buy,”” (Rossetti 6). This can be connected to drugs because once the drug’s vice gets a hold on someone, they become unhealthy and can lose many of their senses. Mr. Fotheringay’s miracles prove to him the God has the power to do anything, and so Fotheringay would believe that miracles are real, God gave him the power to perform unexplainable by science and other worldly things. “Fotheringay was beyond disputing even so fundamental proposition as that!” (Wells 2). This quote shows that once he uses his powers, he is so shocked that he couldn’t find a logical reason as to why the lamp did as he
Lizzie was the first to discover her father’s body. The maid, who was resting in her room in the attic, was called...
In this essay, I am going to illustrate the modes of characterization portrayed in S.Y. Agnon’s story, The Lady and the Peddler by highlighting two key literary devices and revealing what they teach the reader. Firstly, Agnon utilizes situational irony to foreshadow Helen’s true motivation and reveal her morbid characteristics. Upon initial reading, reader’s easily brush off revealing statements; for example, Helen’s informative comment about the death of her husband: she wonders “what difference does it make?” if “an evil beast ate him or whether he was slaughtered with a knife.” Yet, based on Joseph’s experience, it is likely that she both stabbed and ate her ex-husband(s). Helen’s words reveal her chutzpah, she’s slyly confessing to a crime she knows she’ll never be punished for.
There are many criticisms that examine the consumerist characteristics of the poem through the sexual and child-like aspects, such as Helsinger’s article, and Rebecca F. Stern’s article, “’Adulterations Detected’: Food and Fraud in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market.’” The first market in the poem consists of the incredible inventory of delicious fruit; the food market. Rossetti lists a variation of thirty different fruits the goblin men sell. It is well-known that in some areas of the world, only a certain amount of fruits may grow. This applies to the “Goblin Market,” with the setting being in England. If this is the case, it would mean that there are many fruits in that list, such as those of the citrus family, which would not be able to
Even so, she understood the impossibility of any such personally ideal world. The poem illustrates this realization by including the Goblin men, who seem to haunt the female characters. The Goblin men’s low-pitched cries follow the girls. Laura and Lizzie constantly hear the goblins in the forest: “.Morning and evening / Maids hear the goblins cry.”
Moliere’s “The Imaginary Invalid” is a play about a hypochondriac who is so obsessed with his health and money that he ends up neglecting his family’s needs to better his own.
In “Rappaccini’s Daughter” the dual aspects of good and evil in humans are exemplified through the use of figurative language. In the story, Beatrice is described as a beautiful young lady. Hawthorne introduces Beatrice’s beauty to the audience through, “a sculptured portal the figure of a young girl, arrayed with as much richness of taste as the splendid of the flowers, beautiful as the day (3).” These positive traits of Beatrice are presented in order to express her goodness she is compared to flowers and day. In contrast to Beatrice being beautiful Beatrice is also poisonous. Author Roy R Male Jr. suggests that Beatrice is harmful, “The poison in her system-the token of her corruption brings death into the garden” (101). Beatrice is compared to death because creatures- lizard and b...
She asks Laura is she misses her, and tells her to “Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices,” (469) because while the goblins were trying to hurt Lizzie, they got juice all over her face. Laura asks her, “Lizzie, Lizzie, have you tasted for my sake the fruit forbidden?” (478-479) Laura seems to be in awe of what her sister has done, but does what her sister asks. She then falls into a coma-like state and eventually regains her youth.
The addiction to the magical fruits clearly impacts Laura because “she no more swept the house” (Rossetti). This section from “Goblin Market”, written by Christina Rossetti, uses the tidiness of the house as a metaphor for a relationship. The tidiness is set in play from the beginning of the poem, where Lizzie and Laura are introduced as sisters and they “aired and set to rights the house” (Rossetti). In the poem, goblins sell addictive fruits. The house is kept in impeccable conditions with the contribution of both sisters, however Laura refuses to work after trying the magical fruit . The sisters are separated by a barrier of beliefs. The idea of using a home to describe a protagonist's relationship with another is rather uncommon. Despite