Metacognition: A Modern Perspective on Victorian Womens’ Education as shown in Aurora Leigh

The history of women's education is long and meandering, and it is almost impossible to exaggerate the changes that occurred at that time. An outdated attention to attracting men with boring achievements, like mainly female students analyzing Victorian texts, professor's critical thinking and useful skills, a more distinct contrast in the university's classroom Has been replaced. In this case, it is surprising that all the literature at the time supported the educational method at that time.

In Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Road Tenorson's work, the sexual desire of women and their status in the Victorian era are clear. The social position of a Victorian woman shows that there is a shocking social situation in Britain's state power. Because there is an idea that "There is an ideal woman" there, women's difficulties are getting bigger and bigger. This time there is gender inequality in politics and society. Women are considered to have a family's aim and may be able to work in the studio if poor, but Elizabeth Browning is a poetry called "Aurora Lee", aurora in work and family life I am writing about the success of. Question What is the role of women in the Victorian era? Browning seems to put some of her experiences as a female writer in the Aurora Leigh era like her problem as a woman as if she wrote herself under the name of a disguise.

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. "