Goblin Market

Hey gang it has been a rough week, I've been sick, but here it goes.I have really enjoyed reading Great expectations by Charels Dickens. This novel makes great statements on the levels of soceity. I think what I enjoyed the most was the required reading of Goblin Market.I think that the poem definetly supports women empowerment because the sisters do truimph over the goblins, by Lizzie' s will power that is driven by her love for her sister. Laura crumbles to the gobblins where Lizzie stands strong and refuses to pull lip form lip to taste the juice of the fruit of the goblin men, but does put herself in peril to retrieve the juice for her sister, a very loving action.This breaks the spell of the goblin men that had been cast over laura for tasting the fruit. What the goblins represent is clearly a male orientated or the goblins would not specificly be men. To me to say the goblins represents male dominance of the times is a fairly easy reach, I think we can be more specific, and sense there is a feeling of addiction or dependcy with the decline of laura after tasting the fruit, explore what calls to women that which they would depend on men, to make them powerless' and to me that would, maybe because I am a modern American, be a dependeny of monatary stature. Though this poem does have sexual undertones, anytime one talks about juices of fruit ,i think calls up those undertones, ni our modern soceity, maybe Robert Plant had a bit to do with that , but Led Zepplin was not around then and the representations of fruit in the bible are not sexual in nature , insted that of empowerment and knowledge. so maybe, it's not money but men's knowledge that is the secert fruit.