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‘Literature is very good at exploring intense emotion’

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I hope twill multiply love there”

Duchess desires aren’t sinful = “why might not I marry? I have not gone about this to create
any new world or custom”

Context
Duchess flirted with Antonio – took control
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Soeur Lousie de la Misericorde

Textual evidence
“Alas my rose of life gone all to prickles”
“stunting my hopes which might have strained up higher”
“death struck love”
“Desire”

Context
Christina Rossetti never married but had several lovers, she struggled with feelings of desire
like many Victorian women
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Just as the Duchess’s desire for Antonio endangers his safety – which he recognises, so
Laura’s desire for the goblin’s fruit endangers Lizzie as well as Laura


Duchess of Malfi
Textual evidence
“but of your brothers”
“Do not think of them”

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Context
As a manifestation of Rossetti's Christian faith in redemption, for example
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'Goblin Market' has also been read in a socio-historical context, looking at the poem's moral
status as a warning against succumbing to temptation for the women of the Highgate
Penitentiary for Fallen Women, where Rossetti volunteered
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Often argued
that this is where her poem was based
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Julia’s intense desire for Bosola leads, indirectly to her death

Duchess of Malfi

Textual evidence
Julia “which of my women ‘twas you hired, to put love-powder into my drink”
Only confronts Cardinal in first place because Bosola asks her to do

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Maude Clare

Textual evidence
“out of the church she followed them”
“take my share of a fickle heart”

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Extra paragraph “for all she was fair had never an inch of land” – Nell and Thomas married
for gain rather than for love – link to Duchess and Antonio

People married for advantage and not for love

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Before her death, however, it is clear that she regained her religious
belief and looks forward to meeting Antonio in the other world

Intense desire in Twice

‘I took my heart in my hand’
repetition of ‘o my love’

leading to depression

‘as you set it down it broke’
‘I have not often smiled’
‘my broken heart in my hand’

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Christina Rossetti had two lovers that she did not marry due to conflicts in religious beliefs
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Richard Gill ‘Christina Rossetti’s world is one in which hope is deferred’
‘Love and betrayal in the poetry of Christina Rossetti, Anothony H
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It was seen as unfit for a Duchess to marry her
Steward
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Suicide was seen as a sin – whoever committed suicide would go
to hell

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