Marriage did not secure women the same right with men; however, was a norm that devised structures for judging women in Victorian society. ... Women were regarded to be inferior to men and hence, the Victorian society seemed steeping in conservatism with regards to women's sexual choice. ... The act through which Laura falls by buying the fruit from the goblin men with a lock of her hair, which stands for the body, is her initiation into sexuality through heterosexual prostitution. ... The poem "In an Artist's Studio" examines the tendency of men to objectify women in art and the way...

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