Laura's Personality

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Laura and Lizzie, the two sisters, are the protagonists of Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market", Both of them are maiden, pure and innocent. While Lizzie holds on to her innocence and was able to overcome her temptation, Laura fell prey to the goblin men. The personality of Laura progresses throughout the poem, from naivety towards experience and then finally to redemption.
In the beginning of the poem Laura is portrayed as innocent until she tries the goblin fruit that takes away her innocence. The opening line of the poem, "Morning and evening; Maids heard the goblins cry" (Rossetti Lines: 1-2) suggests that only maidens are able to hear the goblin men selling their fruit. And Laura is pure and innocent in that she is able to hear them as she " bowed her head to hear" (Rossetti Line 34), and even as she perks up, she warns Lizzie, "[w]e must not look at goblin men; we must not buy their fruits" (Rossetti Lines 42-43). But later, despite of Lizzie's warning, Laura is amazed and wondered by the sight of the goblin men and their fruit, and finds their sound "kind and full of love" (Rosse...

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