Religion Applied

• Rossetti’s works often include a sense of religious doubt and questioning self-sacrifice and what it really means to be religious or a Christian deserving of heaven.
• In Rossetti’s work, there is a conflict between earthly and heavenly joy, with the belief that one must be sacrificed to deserve each other.
• Even in Rossetti’s non-religious works, her religious influences are present in her use of imagery and portrayal of characters.