good portion of the rest of the poem is devoted to showing Aurora's accomplishments. It also shows the price that love paid in her accomplishments. Her health and looks decline very rapidly compared to Romney and releases that her accomplishments have meant nothing without love. She knew that she loved him but had to deal with her dreams first. And without her dreams her love would have meant nothing. One of the greatest concerns in the theory about feminism is the role that women play in relationships and also the identity that is placed upon them as a lover and as an artist. Many females during the time that Elizabeth Browning wrote "Aurora Leigh" felt discomfort by becoming an artist or anything besides a housewife. As mentioned before this was a stepping-stone for women in this time period. Society put women into separate social classes. And on top of the classes they were categorized in they had the class of being a woman also. With this passage from "Aurora Leigh" Browning describes and criticizes the works of the woman during this time period.The works of women are symbolical.We sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary--or a stool to tumble over and vex you..."curse that stool!"Or else, at best, a cushion where you leanand sleep, and dream of something we are not,But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!This hurts most, this...that, after all, we are paidthe worth of our work, perhaps (15). Now all of talk of women doing everything a man could start setting a trend towards things in the future. But before this things were bad. Lower class to Underclass women did nothing but being prostitutes and being very poor. The Middle Class women and Upper class women were basic homemakers. They did there work while there men went out and made money each day. Most women of theses classes cleaned and cook and did mostly what ever there men wanted out of them....
