Muted Women in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Elizabeth Barre

Muted Wo hands in Virginia Woolfs A Room of wizards Own and Elizabeth Barrett toastings Aurora Leigh In the predominantly virile worlds of Virginia Woolfs A Room of geniuss Own and Elizabeth Barrett Brownings Aurora Leigh (Book I), the womens voices are muted. Female characters are control to the domestic spheres of their homes, and they are excluded from the elite literary world. They are judge to portion as foils to the male figures in their lives. These women are trained to remain still and passive not only by the males around them, but similarly by their parents, their relatives, and their peers. Willingly or grudgingly, the women in Woolf and Brownings whole works are regulated to the domestic circle, discouraged from the literary world, and are judge to act as foils to their male counterparts. Without the means of securing financial independence, women are captive to the world of domestic duties. In Woolfs A Room of sensations Own, Mary Setons homely mother is neither a businesswoman nor a magnate on the Stock Exchange. She cannot afford to provide pro forma education for her daughters or for herself. Without money, the women must toil day and night at home, with no time for learned conversations about archaeology, botany, anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relativity, geography the subjects of the mens conversations (26). As Woolf notes, if Marys mother had gone into business, in that location would have been no Mary. Children are financial burdens and they make heavy demands on a mothers time. It is impossible that a mother could hand and play with their children while making money, because women are expected to raise gigantic families they are the ones who carry o... ...n. And muted the women are, in A Room of Ones Own and Aurora Leigh. They cannot vocalize their opinions, wants, and needs when they are hold in to their homes and discouraged from joining the pre dominantly male literary circles. Moreover, females are expected to act as foils to the males so that the patriarchal societies may flourish. Coleridge once verbalise that a great mind is androgynous (Woolf, 106). When the men and women can meet and unite their minds and bodies, Shakespeares gifted sister will be adapted to re-emerge, freeing the muted voices of these oppressed women.WORKS CITEDWoolf, Virginia. A Room of Ones Own. London Flamingo, 1994.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. 1856. Correspondence Course Notes ENGL 205*S Selected Women Writers I, Spring-Summer 2003, pp. 26, 27. Kingston, ON Queens University, 2003.