In The Birthmark Aylmer wanted Georgiana to continue to be perfect inorder for him to love her and be with her. And for that to happen she had to agree with him that she wasn’t perfect but would do anything to be perfect so that they could be together and so he could fully love her. This then makes her become an object to him, there is no such thing as a human being perfect because perfection is defined in […]
“Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk. The danger is nothing to me … while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust, life is a burden which I would fling down with joy. (Hawthorne, 2016) This passage is one of the most telling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s main character in The Birthmark, Aylmer, a chemical scientist, and a perfectionist. In this thrilling yet bleak short story, Hawthorne brings to life the boldness and snobbishness in […]
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Get help with your assignmentNathaniel Hawthorne’s short story The Birthmark is the story of how one man’s obsession killed his wife. Aylmer is a man of science and the husband of Georgiana. Georgiana is absolutely perfect in Aylmer’s eyes, except for the birthmark on her cheek in the shape of a tiny hand. His obsession of her birthmark drives Aylmer and his assistant, Aminadab, to develop an elixir that will remove it, and his hatred of it and inability to look at the mark […]
Allegory is common in Hawthorne’s writing and his use of symbolism. His use of symbols not only forces the reader to dig deeper but it also causes readers to interpret his stories differently from one another. The different uses of symbolism in the story aid the reader in using the subtext to derive more meaning and further try to understand what exactly Hawthorne was trying to express in his writing. Much of what can be read in The Birthmark pertains […]
My Analysis of The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne was a romantic era writer. Romantics were literary rebels who wrote about strong emotions, the supernatural and the power of nature (Yates). Romantic love is one of the strongest emotions there is, for example; Romeo and Juliet willing to die because they could not be together. Georgiana was willing to die because her birthmark disgusted her husband that she loved. But Alymer was not willing to live with a little flaw that […]
Kim Kardashian, Belcalis Almanzar (Cardi B), and Onika Tanya Maraj (Nicki Minaj) are all women people look to for the ideal thought of perfection. Each of these women has an hourglass figure, clear skin, and a flat stomach. It’s easy for people to belittle themselves when compared to women like this because people are taught to believe that they are the epitome of perfection. These women were not born the way they look now though, each one of the women […]
In the short story The Birth-Mark Nathaniel Hawthorne brought to us several themes in this story, but the main theme we can see here in the passage is submission and sacrifices. The blindness obedience of women in the past to their husbands. Here the main idea of this passage is the wife’s wishes of being perfect as possible through her husband eyes, even if it means that to be perfect in his eyes might cause her own death. In the […]
