Muted Women in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh

In Virginia Woolf's "Own Room" and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Aurora (Book No. 1)", the quiet lady of Virginia Woolf is his room and Aurora Ray of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the world of the major men, the voice of the woman is calm. The role of women is limited to family families, and they are excluded from the elite literary circle. They are expected to become a retreat of male characters in their lives. These women are "quiet" and passive not only from surrounding men but also "trained" to be quiet and passive from their parents, relatives and friends.

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.

A lot of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work reflects the inner conflict that exists in her life. This internal confusion is very obvious at "Aurora Leigh". Barrett Browning often depicts the desire for being a poetry conflict and also hopes to have femininity through the use of symbolism. As scholar Dorothy Mermin states, "A woman trying to become a poet in this structure seems to play a role of male" (Mermin, 715). Speaking of this, Hill argues that the idea between Barrett Browning and Aurora is to become a poet, yet he wants to play his role as a typical Victorian woman. I am struggling. Not only Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but also many Victorian women, as poets, want to stick to every field that men dominate while still maintaining the conflict of women's identity. The cage used to capture animals is a universal symbol of oppression, capture and domination.