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The 'Dark side' has the ability to take hold of our imagination if we do not give it creative form in our lives. Discuss with reference to 'Goblin Market'.
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The 'Dark side' has the ability to take hold of our imagination if we do not give it creative form in our lives. Discuss with reference to 'Goblin Market' The 'dark side' often deals with the suppressed subconscious elements of the human identity. It has the power to focus our attention on the intuitive subconscious realms of being which have the potential to form both creative and destructive forces within our lives. Christina Rossetti in her poem 'Goblin Market' (1862) explores this through the duality of Lizzie and Laura and the politics of their suppressed female desire and its comodification within the market place. Also, concurrently examining the dual nature of women in the market place as both objects and perpetually unfulfilled consumers. Goblin Market can be viewed as a radical dreamlike work of expressive female desire and liberation at odds with the mannered commodification of love within Victorian England. During...
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