Christina Rosetti PDF
Christina Rosetti PDF
Christina Rosetti PDF
The artist’s model is made to perform all these roles as she sits for the male artist’s pictures. But all
of these different roles mean essentially the same thing: they are a version of the male
objectification of women, men’s need to possess and control the way women are represented and,
through this, the way women should be.
-The odd mention of ‘night’ suggesting some sort of male monster or demon, like an incubus,
which visits women at night and feeds upon their bodies and souls.
-She cannot be who she really is, but the one his husband expects. Fills-> she is a sexual possesion,
subordinated to the man.
Rossetti shows her readers just how far women were censored by society. The freedom
of expression, another facet of identity, was not something men wanted to see in the
Victorian lady. As a result, they ignored these feelings altogether and instead, forced a
mask of blissful happiness on women