Aurora Leigh: A Dynamic Character

From what I took from reading Aurora Leigh was that Aurora, the narrator of this novella, was an ambitious child, seeking the true meaning of life as well as following her scholarly abilities. She was a child who was under her father's care, because her mother died when she was four. At age 13 Aurora's father died and she was sent to live with her Aunt, who is a bitter and cold woman. I also see Aurora trying to identify herself and/to her position, especially when she explains the poet and the reader, and tries to make sense of what we are imagining her as. In her situation i feel she is trying to make sense of her life in her surroundings, living with the fact that she exists in a world wanton of motherly affection and without her father's influential form. It was without her mother's influence she had to identify with femininity as well as obtaining the language that forms from the mother sweetly giving "full sense into empty words".

I agree entirely with the topic we went over today, that Aurora defines and lives by two meanings of living. That there is a physical way of life and an emotional "real" way of life. Aurora exhibits both, for she obediently sews and acts properly under the eye of her Aunt, while in her father's attic and in a certain small room in the house she observes nature and breathes her true self.