Sending out the Automatch signal for poetry help!

"Anon" (tjsielsistneb) 05/04/2014 at 20:05 • Filed to: None

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I've been reading "Goblin Market" and I have no idea what the fruit is suppose to mean! Help?

Blondude > Anon 05/04/2014 at 20:12

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Let's consult The Magic Internet!

...the fruit represents Victorian women's exclusion from the world of art.

Well then.

claramag, Mustaco Master > Anon 05/04/2014 at 20:13

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Anon > Blondude 05/04/2014 at 20:18

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I don't think that's right, I don't think women can be raped with exclusion and then have a fruit licking oragy with it.

Blondude > Anon 05/04/2014 at 20:19

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Have you tried?

Anon > Blondude 05/04/2014 at 20:21

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Well not recently....

Anon > claramag, Mustaco Master 05/04/2014 at 20:25

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Nah, I'm good, already get plenty already.

sidewaysandsmiling > Anon 05/04/2014 at 20:27

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The fruit is most likely a reference to the knowledge of life, sin, sexuality, knowledge (all in the same?) and so on.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Anon 05/04/2014 at 20:33

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Hate cuplets. Always hated cuplets.

The forbidden fruit is the visceral things of life that Victorian women were supposed to live without. Getting partly off course, this was the age that infants and toddlers were put in micro chastity belts as to not 'touch themselves.' There was a lot of social evil placed in worldly pleasures, not just in public, but even in private. For women mind you. This story would make no sense if these were men, even to Victorians.

Back on course, you'll notice that Lizzie goes and confronts the worldly pleasures, but does not give into them. Only exposes them the for evils they are. (Jesus on the cross, yada yada, rises again, yada yada) She brings back the juice of this effort, Laura is repulsed but all of it, tormented by it and haunted by it. and conveniently, her virtue is restored. She becomes a loving mother and passes on the wisdom of her attempted misdeed to the new generation.

From a practical perspective, Victorians (especially the poetry class of Victorians) led notoriously short lives and STDs and alcoholism were popular ways to shed your mortal ways. So the message, (while crazy sounding today in many circles) had some practical benefits.

Dunnik > Anon 05/04/2014 at 20:43

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