Great Works MW 2:55 Spring 2013

Senator Sanchez was a powerful money hungry man who only had six months and eleven days to live went to the city of Rosal de Virrey for his reelection speech. He was married to a German woman and had five children, they were all happy in their home. After spewing false promises accompanied, he walked through the town like any political person would do. He met Nelson Farina during his walk, asking him how he was. Nelson just responded that he was fine, then his daughter came out. Sanchez reacted how any normal man would react to seeing a beautiful girl and Nelson noticed this. He decided to use it to his advantage. He sent his daughter Laura Farina to Sanchez. Senator Sanchez was very stunned by Laura’s beauty. Laura was sent to Senator Sanchez because her father needed Laura to convince the senator to get him false identity cards since he had escaped from Devil’s Island. Every time he had the opportunity, he would repeat his request to the Senator. Nelson was hoping that Sanchez will try to have sex with his daughter. Nelson Farina was right and Sanchez did try to do exactly that but found that Laura was wearing a chastity belt. In order to get the key, Nelson wanted Sanchez to straighten out his problems.

“The senator caressed her slowly, seeking her with his hand, barely touching her, but where he expected to find her, be came across something iron that was in the way. What have you got there? A padlock, she said… He told me to tell you to send one of your people to get it along with him a written promise that you’ll straighten out his situation”

The Senator finally agreed to sort out her father’s problem and has Laura just lay with him. He was just so worn down that he only wanted Laura to lay with him. He needed to have someone lay with him so it would make him feel better.

“Forget about the key, he said, and sleep awhile with me. It’s good to be someone when you’re alone”

He asks Laura what she had heard people talk about him. She said that “they say you’re worse than the rest because you’re different.” The senator didn’t get upset he just laid silent for a long time. This somehow ends with Sanchez dying amongst a scandal with Laura Farino.

Death is shown to be a constant. Sanchez had a little over six months to live. However he was shamed to die. Since Marquez’s form of writing is magical realism, the sense of karma was introduced. Since Sanchez was shamed to die, karma was seen and he was shamed at the time of his death. The use of the zodiac sign Aries, was being the sign of the lonely, which also factors in to the time of his death. He is left alone to die in the shame that the public can pile on him. Even the rose, which over time dies, shows that death is a constant. Because the senator knows he is going to die, he loses his care about his reputation and his values and loses himself to death. He gives in to his politically corrupt temptation because he is looking death in the eyes.

In conclusion this story is of power and money but it is also about a man who is told that he will die. He loathes having someone by his side when he dies. He likes Laura’s beauty and grace. But at the end of it, Laura was only using him to get something for her father. In the end, he died lonely.

“The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov is depicting a story of a forty-year-old man named Dmitri Gurov with a young married woman named Anna Sergeyevna where they ended up having an affair. One thing that caught my attention when I was reading is the plot of this story. It follows a regular story plot where it started with exposition and then conflicts came in that led the story to the climax. On the other hand, the conclusion of this story is quite unique where the conflict ended up unresolved. I am quite disappointed at the end where I was expecting a “happily ever after” ending,

The story began at a sea front of Yalta where Gurov encountered with a woman with a dog, where people know her as “The Lady with the Dog”, that seemed lonely. Gurov decided to make her acquaintance, which this is for the numerous times that he had betrayed his wife by having affairs with many different women. Gurov dislikes his marriage because of her bad-tempered wife. The marriage life was ruined where it seems like Gurov himself was the main problem. He is easily falling in love with an attracted woman, where he states, “every time he encountered an attractive woman he forgot all about his experience the desire for life surged up in him, and everything suddenly seemed simple and amusing” (Chekhov 1524). In addition to that, Anna herself was not happy with her marriage life as well, thus, it leads them to having an affair.

Before they ended up going to Anna’s room, she used to be a very kind and honest women where she seemed affair as something “very special, very serious” (Chekov 1527). She felt that she’s very wicked, fallen woman and sinned. On the other hand, Gurov seemed affair as something that is ordinary for him because he sees women as “lower race” and he does not care about relationship at all. After this incident happened, Anna felt very guilty for betraying his husband that has been loyal to her all that time.

All of a sudden, Anna received a mail from her husband urging her to go home because he was having a trouble with his eyes. They have to separate and Anna was “happy” for that because she thought that she shouldn’t have slept with Dmitri. When she leaves him, she states “It’s a good thing I am going … It’s the intervention of fate” (Chekov 1529). In reality, Anna is sad to go back to her home because actually she loves Dmitri but at one point, she feels guilty for having an affair even though her husband was flunky; she does not know what her husband does in his office. At the end, she knows that it is the right to do for just leaving Dmitri and pretends that they have never met before.

Gurov decided to go back to Moscow where his three children and his wife live. He believes that after a month without seeing her, his feeling to Anna would be just a vague memory. His thought is wrong this time. In every thing that he did, Anna’s face came into his mind. He always dreaming about Anna and smiling for long time. After certain time, his feeling to Anna becomes stronger and stronger until she’s no longer in his dreams but she follows him everywhere. He even says that “when he closed his eyes, she seemed to stand before him in the flesh, still lovelier, younger, tenderer than she had really been and looking back, he saw himself, too, as better than he had been in Yalta” (Chekhov 1530).

At the end of the story, he decided to go to Anna’s house and confessed to her that he never loved a woman the way he loves her. Long story short, they finally met at a theater and Anna was shocked until she turned pale and still she didn’t believe that man he saw was Dmitri. After a long conversation, Anna confesses that she still loves him and she decided to keep the relationship going and she promised to visit him in Moscow. At the end, they forgave each other and forgot the past where they knew that the love between them had changed them.

As a conclusion, this reading is pretty interesting for me because the story is unpredictable where I did not expect that Anna would keep the relationship going with Dmitri. At the end of the reading, the author did not end the story with a solid conclusion where, for me, the conflicts are remaining unresolved.
By Timothy

The Lady and the Dog  

The Lady and the Dog is a story about the affair between Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna . Gurov was a Russian banker spending a season in Yalta when he takes interest in this new woman that arrives called Anna, a young lady who was always accompanied by a little dog. On my opinion, it was stranger and awkward that these two married characters were on a vacation without their spouses.

One can assume an affair is going to happen, given that these two people are alone in a different city and seem to be unhappy at their marriage. Gurov was living a dull relationship with his wife and hadn’t been faithful to her for a long time. He had many affairs through his marriage, but they never meant anything to him because he constructed his character by bitter experiences and had the idea that women are a “lower race”.  Although he did not respect women, he felt better in their company that with men. With other man he was colder and didn’t feel like himself. However, he never got attached to any of his affairs and always needed somebody new to fill his need for relationships.

Gurov got married very young, had three children, and it seems  that his marriage had reached that point when he was comfortable  enough in being unfaithful but not too unsatisfied with his life that he needed to get divorced. He did not like being at home and despised his wife, who he thought was a shallow woman and was secretly afraid of her. His wife looked like she had twice his age.

I believe when he first met Anna, he thought that would be just another affair, as all the other ones he had throughout his marriage.  He was attracted by her beauty and youth, but also by the fact that she was a new woman and soon found a way to get acquainted with her.  Because he has had too many affairs it seems he was “good” with woman, he had a way of enchanting them and saying the right things to make them fall for him. And just as he expected they kiss on the first day he talks to her and engage in a romance.

Anna felt bad for cheating on her husband what gives the impression that it was the first time she had done that. They spend a lot of time together but knowing that would have to end and they had to go back home. Anna got a call from her husband and have to go back home. They said their good-byes believing they would never see each other again.

Gurov goes back to his house, his work, and his boring life in Moscow. But this time it was different because he could not forget what happened in Yalta. He could not stop thinking about Anna and the romance they had. Differently from all the other women he had met before, there was something special about Anna. Maybe it was her fragility, maybe it was the fact that she felt very guilty by betraying her husband. Perhaps he fell for her because she was the only woman in whom he saw real feeling. He saw in Anna the confusion between falling in love with a strange man and the guilt of being unfaithful. For the first time in his life, Gurov felt the need of speaking about his feelings to somebody else, for the first time he was in love.

He decided he would find Anna again and would declare his love for her. He goes to Anna’s town and by her last name he easily he finds her house. When they finally meet, she tells him about her feelings too and it is clear hay they were both in love with each other. They carry on with the affair, always meeting in hotels and in hidden places and the feelings they have are growing, but there is a big problem because they are both married. Even though it feels right being together, they both had parallel lives and always stumble on this matter, they knew that the end of this story was far away from them. They wondered that they would have to do to make things work and that it is how the story ends. The author does not present a conclusion and one wonders about a happy ending for Gurov and Anna.

In conclusion, I did not like the ending of this story because I was waiting for a surprise, something unexpected that could happen.  But the story ends much like it starts, it presents two people who are not happy with the situation they are living, with the way their lives are going when the most obvious solution it is the divorce.

By Edirlene

The book “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf is made based on her lecture at The British Women’s Colleges of Girton and Newnham. That fact makes clear that the target of this book is women or female writers. What I think, at first, regarding this literature is that it seems very organized but it is also very difficult to find out her point because her explanation is quite oblique and indirect. Even though the difficulty, what I learned from this book is that she wants to let women know that they need to move for the change of the society for female writers.

There are two things she keeps emphasizing and suggesting to readers in the book. One thing is that women need to have a room of their own, and the other is to have enough money for life. In other words, to be a better writer, the material elements like circumstances are the most important than any other things like a talent. It sounds controversial but very realistic and practical. She supports her suggestion giving examples one by one.

First, Woolf gives an example about women’s status in the past time, and explains why men tried to be over women that time in a psychological way. Men got self-confidence when they were above the half of people. The half of people was supposed to be women because men were doing more important works like wars and making money. It was the reason why women couldn’t have a chance to show their talent that time. The society was not suitable for women did something.

Also, through the experience of her life, she serves readers that money is important. Woolf shows how her mind changes from when she doesn’t have money to when she has enough money. She says that she wasn’t able to think anything besides works which was a typical life for most women that day. But she explains that after receiving legacy from her aunt, many internal things of her, such as her characteristic and thought, changed. She became generous and was able to think more widely and freely. It is a good supporting idea that material thing unveils the hidden talent.

One of examples I got impressed is that she depicts that making a spider web is like writing a literature. “Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare’s plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in..” This quote also supports her idea that all literatures comes from the circumstance, so we cannot ignore it.

Also, the story about the Shakespeare’s sister describes well what she wants to talk about. She makes up the Shakespeare’s sister who has a great artistic talent and shows readers how her talent is wasted because of the bad circumstance. Woolf gives a very detailed description of the life of the Shakespeare’s sister comparing Shakespeare, so she gains the sympathy from readers who are mostly women. This sympathy leads women to change the society. That is what Woolf tries to talk from the beginning.

“A Room of One’s Own” is convincing women to change the society with an indirect way like giving many examples without saying the point clearly. Even though the point is not clearly appeared, it can be more effective that people realize something by themselves rather than that someone teaches them directly.

By Jungju Lim (JJ)

Shilei Chen

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After reading “Diary of a madman” I believe although the main character is a suffering from fear of persecution of “mad men”, but the thrust of the work is not to write down the working people being persecuted by and certainly not a mental patient “documentary literature”, but to borrow mad men to reveal the essence of anthropophagi eating people for thousands of years. Society is constantly being manipulated and controlled by the masses of people who know no better than to follow tradition. Lu xun’s poem gives the representation of a culture that has conformed to the Cannibalistic nature of humans corrupting them-selves over and over again therefore feeding upon themselves. What’s interesting is that the story refers to the fact that China has a long history of incidents of cannibalism. Following the idea that history tends to repeat itself. Only through willingness to change and evolution can societies transform their behaviors and actions giving way to improvement. Mad men in the works, is actually a symbolic image. The key image of a madman is the understanding of mad men is true or false. Is the madman really insane? Is he perhaps saner than those around him?, and Who decides? The diary of a madman in the performance of its theme is a stark display of enlightenment thought. The enlightenment thought of diary of a madman, mainly in the anthropophagi deep to expose, critique to the numbing ignorance of national character, as well as firm belief and warm wishes for the future.

The madman narrator believes that the people of his town are plotting to kill and eat him. Mad men see Zhao’s strange glances, Kids hard face, along the way people whisper about, open mouth, woman on the street saying ‘ bite you several mouths “, relate to the time of famine Wolf village tenant tells the story of cannibalism. From his older brother began to suspect that the current arrangement of normal expression. His pulse read as doctor “kick a stick fat lean”, asked to take the medicine, “hurry and eat” to mean just eating him, and due to this community are people who society has long been the social history is a history of cannibalism. In the poem author uses animal imagery such, “Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox” to describe Zhao family’s  dog’ barking. In Chinese tradition the dog usually represent the owner of it, so what kind of dog you have means what kind of master you are. Also rich and powerful people’s dogs are usually more vicious because they can rely on their owners. If anything goes wrong, they can get away from punishment easily. Mad men review and where there are many psychological disorders and paranoia, but demonstrated a clear understanding, spokesman for deep thought and insight. In this regard, the most prominent are the previously mentioned he wrote “virtue and morality” found a few cracks in the history of the word eat human nature. This passage lifted the veil of anthropophagi in China thousands of years, revealing the anthropophagi in the spirit of the people ‘, reveals the feudal slavery, repressive criminal. Poem uses of everyday life for most people in the first place often onlookers or look, talk about a madman, against arousing “persecution” in patients with inner fears, gradually leads to the topic. Looking at the people around him, those victim such as : “magistrate’s orders, faces slapped by the gentry, wives ravished by yamen clerks, their dads and moms dunned to death by creditors”, however, they not only failed to rise up and eat people, but would also like to eat people. Authors are confused, angry and believe they can change.

At the end of the poem, there is such a thing: “now that I know I’m someone with four thousand years’ experience of cannibalism behind me, how hard it is to look real human beings in the eye!”, Lu Xun here as “I” is not a specific person, but a set of art, of course, the “I” can only be a person, only human beings can carry some kind of human consciousness, however, this person was not true of “persecution” patients, Lu Xun as artists do not like doctors and researchers, the record describes a patient’s symptoms.

Upon reading this poem it is very clear to me that the speaker feels very distant from the world he lives in. He says “To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” which leads me to believe that he has to put on a facade or a “face” in order to be accepted in society.

It is clear to me that the person speaking is living in a city. Many references are made to imagery that makes me believe that he is describing the world around him to be a lonely city which he regrets to be a part of and does not feel like he belongs in… “And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?”, “Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument.” He speaks about a possible love encounter which he is apprehensive about. From the tone of the speaker it is clear to me that he wants to express his feelings to this lover but feels that it can be a big mistake. He says:

Mirza Ghalib was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire. When I first read his “ghazals” I had a very difficult time understanding them. When I read them straight through they didn’t make sense to me. When I read each one on its own it helped me understand it better. I realized through these verses that he was very lonely and had an overwhelming sense of loss of community and God.

In Verse five stanza one he talks about a small drop of water. He talks about the “waterbead” wanting to “die” in the stream. To be consumed by the whole is the ultimate joy of the part, which is why the tiny drop wants to die in the stream. Which you can also connect to how an individual wants to be a part of a community. He then explains how pain becomes its own medicine. When pain exceeds a certain limit it becomes its own remedy. Some research I did explained how an ”individual” dies at the end of pain but this pain turns into joy because he/she is returning to “God.” He is basically saying pain is so much that it manages to cure itself.

The second stanza he is saying once our weakness crosses a limit instead of crying all anyone can do is “sigh.” He says that “water” which symbolizes tears turns into “air” which symbolizes sighing.  The third stanza he goes back into talking about death. He says after it rains the clouds start to “thin away” and almost die out so he is saying how the clouds have cried and died in their own grief completely.

In his fourth stanza he talks about the wonders of clean air and to understand it he says to see how moss on a mirror grows in spring. In Ghazals mirrors symbolize” truth and clarity.” In the last stanza he refers to a rose, which literally symbolizes everything, that is beautiful during spring but in this type of poetry it is many times a reference to a beloved, which is God. The rose is what we perceive as beautiful which leads us to understand how we see the world.  He says “All colors and kinds, what is should and be open always” which means our eyes should be accepting of what we see and be open to experiences.

This was a hard poem to understand but I read it line by line. Once you pull apart his poem it’s easier to comprehend and you can feel the emotions he is trying to convey in his poem.

Henrick Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabbler” highlights the decadent life of the lead Hedda. She is in a constant struggle as she battles for happiness and “freedom.” Through the play Hedda is obsessed with this theme of freedom, she admires Thea Alvsted for running away from her constrained monotonous life. When Thea first comes to the Tesman household in hopes they would assist her “soul mate” Eilert Lovborg, Hedda takes advantage of this opportunity in attempts to recapture her freedom.  She expresses to Thea “Yes, I have. I want for once in my life to have power to mould a human destiny.”  She feels if she is able to mold Lovborg’s life it will bring her the satisfaction she seeks in her life.

It is significant the play should be named “Hedda Gabler” given that Hedda’s name during the time of the play is Hedda Tesman. This highlights Hedda considers herself more her father’s daughter rather than her husband’s wife. She would prefer to identify with her father which can only lead us to assume, she preferred living the life she had when living under her father. Her father was a general and a man of power. As the general’s daughter, especially when she was around him, she was sure to have power and influence over others. This may explain why Hedda strived to manipulate Lovborg’s love for her and use it to control him. This would bring back the sensations she once experienced when living with her father, it would give her one last taste of the power she previously endured.

Through the play Hedda entertains the idea of being with three different men: her husband George Tesman, Judge Brack, and Eilert Lovborg. This develops her desire to bring back the influence she held with her father. First, she may feel empowered toying with the feelings of three distinct men. More importantly, she may be seeking the man that can bring back the experiences she had with her father. It is ironic because surely a powerful man such as Judge Brack can bring her this influence, however he wants her as a toy not a partner.

Hedda toys with the lives of everyone around her, it is the last taste of power she experiences as she no longer lives with her father. By the end of the novel, Lovborg has died from the gun she gave him and Tesman and Thea conjoin to re-write the memoir Hedda destroyed. George Tesman expresses this project will take him months of concentration and expresses to Hedda she can have the judge’s company to keep from boring. Tesman expresses this project will take him months of concentration and expresses to Hedda she can have the judge’s company to keep from boring. At this point, the judge already blackmailed Hedda as he recognized it was her gun that killed Lovborg. The judge expresses to Hedda they will have a lot of fun together in their alone time and he is clearly implying sexually.  Hedda responds “Yes, don’t you flatter yourself we will, Judge Brack? Now that you are the one cock in the basket.” This line confirms she has lost both Tesman and Lovborg as Judge Brack is the only “cock” left. Hedda could not bear to live inside of Judge Brack’s game. It was he who would be in the position of power of over her, Hedda has no alternative and takes her life.

By Jennifer Ingrao

“Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen was definitely a work that surprised me a few times.  I would be sitting there reading it, never quite bored, but sometimes assuming I knew where it was going.  But several plot twists kept the story moving at a fast past and me very interested.  I was very surprised to see the connection between Hedda and Mr. Lovberg definitely didn’t see that coming during her first meeting with Mrs. Elvsted.

Hedda seems to suffer from some type of mental illness, what exactly, I’m not sure.  It is first brought up when she is describing to Judge Brack her inability to control her actions.  She says:

“Well, you see—these impulses come over me all of a sudden; and I cannot resist them.”

Judge Brack suggests she may be unhappy or depressed, but I think as the play goes on we can see there is much more going on here.  She also seems to have a problem containing herself, as several time s throughout the play, namely in Act III she is referred to as speaking ”involuntarily”.

One quote that Hedda said really stuck with me and this was “One is not always mistress of one’s thoughts.”  I feel like this does a great job of describing her character and her struggles in a nutshell.  She seems to have images in her head that she thinks are fact and they ultimately drive her to act irrationally.  Her continuous reference to Mr. Lovberg with “vines in his hair” is very disturbing and I don’t really understand it but I can only connect it to some type of mental disorder.

Another thing that came across clear was Hedda’s jealousy of Mrs. Elvsted.  It seems pretty obvious that they have some time of past together, and it was not a pleasant one.  It is interesting to me that Hedda attempts to refer to their past as one of camaraderie and friendship, yet doesn’t even remember Mrs. Elvsted’s first name correctly.

The relationship between the judge and Hedda was interesting.  I think there was a sexual nature there but I’m not quite sure.  I’m also not quite sure about what some of their conversations meant.  The way they kept referencing a triangle was very strange and it seemed that Tesman was always clueless to their secret conversations.

This brings me to my next point, the character of Tesman.  Tesman seems to be a fairly simple man, and who throughout the play demonstrates a lack of common sense.  He seems to have no idea about Hedda’s motivations and also seems like a guy who doesn’t think too much into his decisions, as he purchased a home without even being sure of his position and income.  He seems to have no real thoughts of his own.  He even refers to this himself when at the end of the play they are discussing putting together Mr. Lovberg’s manuscript and he says, “Arranging other people’s papers is just the work for me.”

It seems like Hedda is calling all the shots both outwardly and behind the scenes.  She refers to trying to get Tesman into politics.  This is another indication of the power she has over him, and she seems to know it.  It is an interesting role for the female to take.  Henrik Ibsen seems to be trying to give power to women in this play, and showcase how outwardly she seems to be attentive to Tesman (as much as a woman of her independence can be) and to follow the confines and demands of society, but in fact something else is going on entirely.  It reminds me of his other play, A Doll’s House, in that respect.

The ending of the play was very ironic.  The fact that Hedda’s manipulative plot ended up blowing up in her face was another thing I didn’t see coming.  History seems to be repeating itself as Mrs. Elvsted is now in the exact same position she was when she fell in love with Mr. Lovberg, but now with Hedda’s current husband.  It seems his attention to Hedda begins waning when he announces his dedication to work on the manuscript with Mrs. Elvsted.  Also the character of the judge being the one to come out on top in the end was another twist I didn’t see coming.   Hedda referred to shooting oneself as “courageous” and that is probably what she was thinking when she committed suicide.  She realized her power and freedom was completely lost and probably felt she was doomed to be controlled by the men around her.  Therefore, suicide was a way out.

All in all I really enjoyed the play, and the writing style made it easy to read and interpret.  There were a lot of great quotes that I think I will remember long after reading it.

The “Goblin Market” poem, by Christina Rossetti, heavily symbolizes religion with its goblin, fruit, and the two sisters’ presentation. Rossetti describes two sisters Lizzie and Laura as very close sisters, who live alone without their parents. After Lizzie tried fruits that goblins sell she yearns to try them again. These fruits become like drugs for her and she cannot stop thinking about them. Desire to try those fruits cannot be satisfied which leads her to depression and slow death. I believe that fruits in this poem symbolize different types of sins like adultery, lies, murder, stealing, and greed. Once person commits sin he or she cannot stop herself/himself from repeating it again. Taste of doing it is so sweet that it becomes difficult to resist it. Fruits that goblins offer are described as sweet and delicious, that once you try one you want to eat them forever: “Sweeter than honey from the rock/Stronger than man-rejoicing wine/Clearer than water flowed that juice”.

I found interesting that not every one can hear goblins. The poem notes that only maids can hear goblins cry, which can be interpreted as maid being innocent, not tainted with sin.

“Morning and evening

Maids heard the goblins cry”

Goblins are described as devils that lure innocent maids to commit a sin.

Rossetti also shows the power of sisterly love. Lizzie’s love was proven in action. After Lizzie noticed that her sister Laura is dying, she sacrifices herself and let goblins humiliate her in order to save her sister:

“Though the goblins cuffed and caught her,

Coaxed and fought her,

Bullied and besought her,

Scratched her, pinched her black as ink,

Kicked and knocked her,

Mauled and mocked her”

This scene shows Lizzie’s love and care of her sister, Laura. Since Lizzie doesn’t try goblins fruit she is free from addiction, and she can resist goblins attack.

Also I found interesting the way Rossetti describes images of goblins. In this poem they are described as devils.

“Their tones waxed loud,

Their looks were evil.

Lashing their tails”

I really like the way Rossetti describes every detail of their appearance:

“One had a cat’s face,

One whisked a tail,

One tramped at a rat’s pace,

One crawled like a snail,

One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry,

One like a ratel tumbled hurry-scurry”

Images in this poem play important roles. When I start reading this poem I imagine goblins as little cute creatures, resembling gnomes. However, Rossetti shows them as ugly and weird creatures with ugly face. Which give us a hint that those goblins are bad.

In conclusion I want to say that everyone has a choice in this life. Like two sisters, both of them had choice whether try fruits or not, as it can be compared to committing sins or not. Each chose her own way and bore appropriate consequences.

Svetlana Pak