Lesson work on critical positions for women

Laura:
'She sucked and sucked and sucked'- Disobeys Lizzie/exaggerating on relishing
'fruit globes fair or red'- Metaphor for forbidden fruit/adjectives to create a sense of beauty
Laura is poetic
Lizzie:
'Should not'- modal verbs/morality/rules enforcer
'Covered up her eyes'-modesty/repression/child like/purity
'Dimpled fingers in her ears'-infantilised/cubby and cherub.
'Their evil gifts will harm us'-lecturing of dangers/parent like/controlling
Not engaging with the world around her
Creating limitations

KEY QUOTE:
'Lizzie with an open heart, Laura in an absent dream.'







ALL WOMEN COMMUNITY=EMPOWERMENT
TRAPPED IN DULL DOMESTIC SPHERE=DISEMPOWERMENT

Laura and Lizzie are used by Christina Rossetti to explore the conflict Victorian women felt towards their role as the angel of the domestic sphere.

Through the characters Laura and Lizzie Christina Rossetti creates an image of disempowerment for Victorian women who are trapped in a domestic sphere. Within stanza nine of Goblin Market the main characters wake 'early in the morning' which implies women had to be up at the first sight of light to begin the day. 'Neat like bees, as sweet and busy.' Is a line used to portray Laura and Lizzies morning image. The adjective 'neat' illuminates the stereotypical image of perfection and how women should look appealing all of the time. The line also empathises the amount of work Laura and Lizzie do. This is shown through the simile 'like bees' as it implies that the characters are constantly working and using their energy to clean the house which creates the image of a women as the angel in the home.