![]() ![]() Perhaps more radically still, Rossetti seems to suggest that the plight of fallen women might call out the nobler qualities-like bravery and self-sacrifice-in their unfallen sisters, calling them to become more like Christ. ![]() ![]() Rossetti uses biblical allusions to align Lizzie with Christ, whose sacrifice saves humanity from death, a radical decision given that Victorian society did not treat men and women as equals. Believing Laura to be on the brink of death, Lizzie seeks out the dangerous goblin men and, in doing so, places herself in extreme danger she risks being tempted, as Laura and Jeanie were, to eat the forbidden fruit, and, although she does not know it when she sets out on this dangerous mission, she will also be physically-and, it is implied, sexually-assaulted by the goblin men. Lizzie saves her sister, Laura, through an act of self-sacrifice that occurs at the poem’s dramatic climax. ![]()
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