Common Elements in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story and in Christian Rossetti's Goblin Market

In addition to the five themes of democracy, gender, culture, empire, industrialization, the sixth theme of Victorian Gothic also outlines the Victorian era. This new theme is published in Elizabeth Gaskell's short story "The Old Nurse's Story" and Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market". Both works show the general elements of Gothic literature, such as old houses, mysteries, horror, ghosts, fancy creatures, unknown things, oppression and so on. The background stories of both authors provide insight into the reason behind their work.

Goblin Market (written in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a story poem by Christina Rossetti. This poem tells the story of Laura and Lizzie, which is tempted by a goblin merchant. In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem was often interpreted as having an abnormal sexual image and not suitable for children. But in public, Rossetti often said that poetry was designed for children and continues to write poetry by many children. When that poem appeared in the Goblin Market and other poems, her brother Raphael's former fellow artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti explained this.

The poet Rossetti is a prostitute of John Polidori who is the author of "Vampire" (1819) who is said to have influenced Rosetti's famous goblin market and other poetry (1862). Rossetti plans to write a biography of Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe. He praises it, but I have to give up the project because there is no available information. The Goblin Market talks about the adventure of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. The two men were ridiculed by the goblin merchant and bought a sweet and attractive fruit. Lizzie was able to resist their fraud, but Laura succumbed. Narrator details Lolly 's indifference and Lizzie' s efforts to save her sister. This poem is interpreted differently as a moral allegory of a child, an erotic lesbian fancy, a rhyme experiment of rice with rice, and a reinterpretation of feminism in Christian myth.

Goblin Market (published in April 1859, published in 1862) is a fable, one of Christina Rossetti's most famous poems, and one of her most striking poems. It depicts two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. And they traveled to the goblin market and raised themselves with their own fruit, just to get back to freshness and morbidity. Lizzie went to the market to buy more fruit so that Laura became healthy, but the goblins would not sell her - they pressed fruit on her face and tried to catch her. Lizzy resisted, after all they gave up. When she came home, Laura got worse, but eventually he recovered.