Divided Sisters and Divided Personalities of the Goblin Market “I have 50 different personalities and I am still alone” (Amos). Perhaps everyone is truly composed of multiple personalities embodied within a whole. Whether these split personalities are real or purely metaphorical, no human being has a one-sided mind and a one-sided stance on everything. In the brain, many battles rage between opposing sides of issues, between personalities. "Goblin Market" is one of Christina Rosetti's "sister" poems, a form in which she used the sisters to "represent different aspects of the split personality caused by conflicting attitudes and mixed emotions toward love" ( Bellas 66). The two young opposite sides of the brain of the same person are separated into two different beings, two sisters. Over the course of the poem, the two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, pit and grow into contrasting opinions and factions about love, femininity, and sensuality, eventually maturing and reconciling their conflicting beliefs onto common ground. “Laura’s love for the fruit is insatiable” (Mayberry 90). Lizzie is a more Victorian image of “cautious, timid, and tedious” love (Mayberry 43). In the Victorian era, respectable women were expected to be good Christians. Rossetti is a demonstration of these expectations. Referring to the awkward moral at the end of the poem, Martine Brownley says: "It was undoubtedly the only way for the quiet and devoted recluse to tolerate what she had procured in the poem. The Woman Who Sticked pieces of paper on the most explicit lines in Swinburne's poetry could never have dealt with the real-life implications of the incredibly effective parable...which, one way or another, arises from his unconscious".. . middle of paper......look" for the first time in her life. The Victorian element of the 1800s has been brought down to a more reasonable level thanks to Lizzie. Laura's wild feminist has been tamed by the life-threatening experience and overwhelming devotion of her sister Works Cited Amos, Tori "Tori Amos in Conversation. " Baktabak Recordings 1997. Bellas, Ralph A. Christina Rossetti. Illinois State University, Twayne Publishers Boston, 1977. Harrison, Anthongy H. Christina Rossetti in Context. University of NC Press, Chapel Hill and London: 1988. Mayberry, Katherine J. Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London 1989. Brownley, Martine Watson, “Love and Sensuality in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market.” 2 Rpt in TCLC.