![]() ![]() After learning about her sister’s bargain with the goblins, Lizzie, who can still hear the chant, decides to take action and save Laura. Laura can no longer hear the goblins' chant and she becomes more and more anxious for the fruit, so much so that sickness overcomes her. Golden head by golden head is how they rest together, Like two wands of ivory / Tipp’d with. ![]() Even though she indulges in the pleasures the goblins offer, she refuses to fully lose herself. She is aware of what happened to Jennie and her sister Laura. Lizzie is now looking and taking everything in, but she still proves to be a worthy opponent against the goblins. ![]() A pair of sisters in Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem Goblin Market1, the two girls presumably live alone on a homestead and are depicted as near-identical and of indeterminate age. Goblin Market illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Not knowing it was already too late for Laura, Lizzie is worried about her and proceeds to tell her the story of Jennie, a girl who suffered severe consequences after falling for the promises made by the goblins. The story of Laura and Lizzie begins with a lock of hair. After taking the goblins fruit, Laura comes back home excited and restless, it seems like she cannot wait for another taste of the fruit. Laura seems more reckless than her sister and falls prey to the goblins' advances she does not suspect anything foul when the goblins tell her that she needs no money to purchase their fruit, they will be happy with just a “golden curl.” She hands over “this emblem of her virginity with only a single tear, her naivité about the marketplace has condemned her to a loss far greater than she knows (Carpenter, 1991). ![]()
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