Aura is a very
interesting story as it displays variety of supernatural elements. Aura,
depicted as a niece of the old widow, is described in so many different ways
that makes reader think that her age changes every day: some times very young
and beautiful, and other times as a mid-aged woman. In addition, it is also
very hard to relate the old widow to Aura because the widow must be more then
100 years old and the niece seems as if she is barely 20.
When readers dig deeper into the relationship between Aura and
Consuela, it comes to mind that they mirror each other: Aura behaving and talk
as same as the widow. Not only Aura and the widow shadow each other, we can see
this from the narrator and the General, the widows husband who passed away. As
the narrator gets into bed with Aura, he finds himself transforming into
General and Aura into Consuela.
Interestingly, features such as claustrophobic characterization of
a character (in this case, the widow Consuela), dark environment, mysterious
decline of heritage. Moreover, alike many other Gothic literature,
the narrator seem to suffer from anxiety as story climaxes. The horror
that was characterized from the environment eventually consumes the narrator
and in the end, he cannot even tell who he really is.
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