Divided Sisters and Divided Personalities of the Goblin Market"I have 50 different personalities, yet I feel alone" (Amos). Perhaps everyone is truly composed of multiple personalities embodied in a whole. Whether these split personalities are real or purely metaphorical, no human being has a one-sided mind and a one-sided position on everything. Many battles rage in the brain between opposing sides of issues, between personalities. “Goblin Market” is one of Christina Rosetti’s “sister” poems, a form in which she used sisters to “represent different aspects of split personality caused by conflicting attitudes and conflicting emotions toward love” (Bellas 66). The two young and opposite sides of a single person's brain are separated into two different beings, two sisters. Throughout the poem, the two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, contrast and become conflicting opinions and factions on love, femininity, and sensuality, eventually maturing and reconciling their conflicting beliefs into common ground. “Laura's love for the fruit is insatiable” (Mayberry 90). Lizzie is a more Victorian image of “cautious, timid, and boring” love (Mayberry 43). In Victorian times, respectable women were expected to be good Christian women. Rossetti is a demonstration of these expectations. In reference to the uncomfortable moral at the end of the poem, Martine Brownley says: "Doubtless that was the only way in which the quiet, devoted recluse could tolerate what she had achieved in the poem. The woman who pasted scraps of paper over the more explicit lines in the Swinburne's poem could never have addressed the actual implications of the extraordinarily effective parable... which somehow flowed from his unconscious self "... middle of the paper... look" for the first time in her life. The Victorian element of the 1800s was brought to a more reasonable level through Lizzie. Laura's wild feminist was tamed by her sister's life-threatening experience and overwhelming devotion. 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. Brownley, Martine Watson, "Love and sensuality in Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'. Literary essays 1979 Western Illinois University vol. No. 2 Rpt in TCLC.