Goblin Men: Then and Now All around the world, women are degraded for reasons such as intelligence, sexuality, physical strength, or even details some would find insignificant, such as hair color or weight. Women are catcalled, sexually harassed, abused, and thought of as inferior to men every single day. Christina Rossetti shows how men in the Victorian Era degraded women in the same way women are degraded today. It is disheartening to see that the way some men acted during this time is still relatable to today. Women’s rights have flourished since the Victorian Age, but some people still believe women are less than men. Equality is profoundly important because everyone should be treated equally. No one, women
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She says with a disappointed tone to her sister, “Do you not remember Jeanie, How she met them in the moonlight, Took their gifts both choice and many, Ate their fruits and wore their flowers Plucked from bowers Where summer ripens at all hours? But ever in the moonlight She pined and pined away; Sought them by night and day, Found them no more but dwindled and grew grey; Then fell with the first snow,” (Rossetti, 1862, p. 763). Rossetti adds this important information about Jeanie to show what the goblin men have done to her. Once Jeanie ate the goblin fruit, she could not eat them again because she could no longer find the goblins. She became emotionally distraught as she pined for the fruit. Eventually, she died after not being able to eat any more goblin fruit. This symbolizes how men in the Victorian Age would convince women to take part in sexual activities with them. The men describe all of the amazing qualities about themselves, and the women carry out sexual activities in hopes of love. Once the men got what they wanted, they would not contact the women again. This made the women rather emotional and confused because they had given up their bodies, and other personal belongings, in exchange for love, but instead received emotional
She says with a disappointed tone to her sister, “Do you not remember Jeanie, How she met them in the moonlight, Took their gifts both choice and many, Ate their fruits and wore their flowers Plucked from bowers Where summer ripens at all hours? But ever in the moonlight She pined and pined away; Sought them by night and day, Found them no more but dwindled and grew grey; Then fell with the first snow,” (Rossetti, 1862, p. 763). Rossetti adds this important information about Jeanie to show what the goblin men have done to her. Once Jeanie ate the goblin fruit, she could not eat them again because she could no longer find the goblins. She became emotionally distraught as she pined for the fruit. Eventually, she died after not being able to eat any more goblin fruit. This symbolizes how men in the Victorian Age would convince women to take part in sexual activities with them. The men describe all of the amazing qualities about themselves, and the women carry out sexual activities in hopes of love. Once the men got what they wanted, they would not contact the women again. This made the women rather emotional and confused because they had given up their bodies, and other personal belongings, in exchange for love, but instead received emotional