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A review by msgtdameron
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Big picture items I got from this work:
One: Love, real love is the most necessary idea when one is working for social change. With out love for individuals No social justice work or experiment then or now will be successful. Auroras; love for the individual is what forces her forward and leads to her rejection of Romney and his high ideas of social justice.
Two: With the love of an idea and not of the individuals that will be changed by that idea, social justice programs are more likely to harm than do overall good.
Three: That the conservative right will never figure out that they are wrong. Lady Waldemar's letter in book nine shows this. She skips over in two lines the damage she inflicted on Marian as, well if my agent failed me it is not my fault. That the real fault belongs to Aurora for not pushing her cousin to marry her or to marry Lady Waldmar, or their mutual friend who just appears in the work as her editor/lawyer new betrothed. An obviously delusional women who can't accept her fault in Marians' rape and subsequent pregnancy. Typical well off person, (GOP)
Four: The poor have their own dignity and any and all programs to help them must be answerable to that dignity. This is still a major problem today with all the do-gooder programs that crop up and then find failure. Most of these people work hard, many hold two or three jobs. This as was true in 1856 as it is today. Yet social reformers and the politicians they support usually ignore this simple basic fact the each man poor, rich or in-between should be treated with the same dignity and deference as is shown to the powerful donor or politician. To be successful each program for the benefit of the poor must give them same deference. This is the real statement at the endow Book IV. Love and respect for each person, Aurora, with the plan and political moxy will work. To bad as in 1856 and 175 years later there is so little of both in our social contracts.
One: Love, real love is the most necessary idea when one is working for social change. With out love for individuals No social justice work or experiment then or now will be successful. Auroras; love for the individual is what forces her forward and leads to her rejection of Romney and his high ideas of social justice.
Two: With the love of an idea and not of the individuals that will be changed by that idea, social justice programs are more likely to harm than do overall good.
Three: That the conservative right will never figure out that they are wrong. Lady Waldemar's letter in book nine shows this. She skips over in two lines the damage she inflicted on Marian as, well if my agent failed me it is not my fault. That the real fault belongs to Aurora for not pushing her cousin to marry her or to marry Lady Waldmar, or their mutual friend who just appears in the work as her editor/lawyer new betrothed. An obviously delusional women who can't accept her fault in Marians' rape and subsequent pregnancy. Typical well off person, (GOP)
Four: The poor have their own dignity and any and all programs to help them must be answerable to that dignity. This is still a major problem today with all the do-gooder programs that crop up and then find failure. Most of these people work hard, many hold two or three jobs. This as was true in 1856 as it is today. Yet social reformers and the politicians they support usually ignore this simple basic fact the each man poor, rich or in-between should be treated with the same dignity and deference as is shown to the powerful donor or politician. To be successful each program for the benefit of the poor must give them same deference. This is the real statement at the endow Book IV. Love and respect for each person, Aurora, with the plan and political moxy will work. To bad as in 1856 and 175 years later there is so little of both in our social contracts.