Feminism in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning feminist Aurora Lei is very glorious and Elizabeth Barrett Browning has created an independent, intelligent young woman. Barrett Browning succeeded in demonstrating the difficult obstacles women have to overcome during the Victorian era. There is a prejudice about how "appropriate" women should handle their lives. This idea is not completely overcome by our time. Barrett Browning is optimistic about what women can achieve. She wants to prove to her that her and her dreams are possible and that it is better than the standard.

In 1856, Elizabeth Barret Browning published a novel by poetry, Aurora Lee after some twists and turns. An ambitious poet. In the lighting article, Aurora's cousin and potential pursuer Romney Leigh summarizes his attitude towards female writers of that era: such an obvious sexism as the above poem seems to the modern reader, It is incompatible with the experience of women and women. As the poet continues to dominate over the next 100 years, the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s brought political and cultural disparities. Women strive for equal treatment and civil rights; at the same time, female poets create a structure of mutual support and profoundly change the poem itself.

Finally, the theme of women's autonomy is common to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work. Women's autonomy is the central theme of "Aurora Leigh", in fact, it is not only the actions of Aurora but also the driving force of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's own life. When the aurora ties itself with Ivy, the aurora marks itself as a writer, and this desire for female autonomy is evident in "aurora Lee". When the aurora crowned himself, she discussed the need to prove her worth: "Until death spreads their forehead into the bones, the most valuable poet ever has yet to explain I can not, unless I prove that it is not worth the major adversity, of course it will not fail so much. "(P.38) There is no clear mention of" a big adversity ", but Aurora, and of course Barrett Only Browning himself may be a woman who hates women.

In "Aurora Leigh", Elizabeth Barrett Browning presents a refreshing role against Victorian norms. Furthermore, she created Aurora Lee's aunt as a character to show off the real feminist nature of Aurora. The idea of ​​a Victorian lady, Aurora Leigh's aunt, is all that she is not. Browning used a cold image to outline her aunt's appearance: "Her forehead is slightly thin and knitted tight ... brown hair stabbed with gray / cold used in life. Draw on the ground "(1181). Aurora Leigh's aunt looks like a living woman and a person's life. Lee stated, "She lived in the past, I would say this is a harmless life, she calls it a benign life ... this is not life at all" (1181). Aurora regarded her aunt's "good life" as restrictive and suffocating existence. Not only did my aunt often live an organized life, men asserted the traditional sex role (or rule) established by men in the male world. "