“The Birthmark” shows how this earthly world does not fulfill you. As The Bible says, “[b]ut I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” (Bible Galatians 5:16). Aylmer and Georgiana perfectly display this. Aylmer searches for fulfillment in Georgiana’s appearance and Georgiana looks for it in the way Aylmer is attracted to her. Hawthorne clearly shows this in the way that his characters crave perfection that ultimately destroy them.
Aylmer’s craving over takes him and blinds him from really seeing Georgiana for who she is. Aylmer feels that the only way that their marriage will work is if she is perfect. He tells Georgiana, “[o]nly one thing remains to be tried. If that fail us we are ruined” (Hawthorne …show more content…
Aylmer is lots of terrible, awful things in this short story, but the main thing is he that he is a failure in each one. One of the things that he fails at is being a scientist. Georgiana soon after marrying him finds out that he always falls short the goal he sets for himself. “...she could not observe that his most splendid successes were almost invariably failures...” (Hawthorn 14). Even after a while he fails at being a husband. He starts to wanting to perfect her more and more each day. Aylmer does not care at what cost he has to do it, as long as he makes Georgiana perfect. After Aylmer says, “...it is successful! You are perfect,” and Georgiana replies, “My poor Aylmer...I am dying...” (Hawthorn 19). Aylmer does not even care that he killed someone who thought that he was the noblest person alive. “Her heart exulted, while it trembled, at his honorable love--so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of” (Hawthorne 16). Aylmer puts blinders on Georgiana and makes her think that what he is doing is actually kind. Aylmer not only destroyed himself with this impossible dream, but took Georgiana down with …show more content…
Aylmer is so handsome to her that she gets blind sighted by him and how he wants to change her. Aylmer is talking about the poison, “[i]t is so beautiful to the eye..but it is the most precious poison that ever was concocted in this world” (Hawthorne 13). That is just how Aylmer is, he is very handsome to Georgiana but he is the most deadliest thing in this world. Also, it is ironic that she says she will take poison from his hand because of how infatuated she is with him, and she ends up doing just that. She can not differentiate between his kindness or the demon in him. “Aylmer’s scheme to ‘perfect’ his wife is tragically misguided” (Gatta Jr 1). That is the biggest understatement. Aylmer clearly only has one goal which is to remove that scar at no cost. Georgiana should have not stayed with him. Saying all this, shows that Georgiana did not have a clear, good head on her shoulders. Roseburg claims that, “Georgianna differs from Aylmer not only in the nature of her failure but in her clear-sightedness” (3). However, Georgianna did not have a clear head her’s was the most clouded. She was too in love to see Aylmer for who he really was. Also, she and Aylmer are actually very similar. They both fail in similar but somewhat different ways. She fails in the sense that she lets Aylmer control her and her emotions. As well, Aylmer fails in being a scientist and a terrible partner to Georgiana. All
Aylmer’s craving over takes him and blinds him from really seeing Georgiana for who she is. Aylmer feels that the only way that their marriage will work is if she is perfect. He tells Georgiana, “[o]nly one thing remains to be tried. If that fail us we are ruined” (Hawthorne …show more content…
Aylmer is lots of terrible, awful things in this short story, but the main thing is he that he is a failure in each one. One of the things that he fails at is being a scientist. Georgiana soon after marrying him finds out that he always falls short the goal he sets for himself. “...she could not observe that his most splendid successes were almost invariably failures...” (Hawthorn 14). Even after a while he fails at being a husband. He starts to wanting to perfect her more and more each day. Aylmer does not care at what cost he has to do it, as long as he makes Georgiana perfect. After Aylmer says, “...it is successful! You are perfect,” and Georgiana replies, “My poor Aylmer...I am dying...” (Hawthorn 19). Aylmer does not even care that he killed someone who thought that he was the noblest person alive. “Her heart exulted, while it trembled, at his honorable love--so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of” (Hawthorne 16). Aylmer puts blinders on Georgiana and makes her think that what he is doing is actually kind. Aylmer not only destroyed himself with this impossible dream, but took Georgiana down with …show more content…
Aylmer is so handsome to her that she gets blind sighted by him and how he wants to change her. Aylmer is talking about the poison, “[i]t is so beautiful to the eye..but it is the most precious poison that ever was concocted in this world” (Hawthorne 13). That is just how Aylmer is, he is very handsome to Georgiana but he is the most deadliest thing in this world. Also, it is ironic that she says she will take poison from his hand because of how infatuated she is with him, and she ends up doing just that. She can not differentiate between his kindness or the demon in him. “Aylmer’s scheme to ‘perfect’ his wife is tragically misguided” (Gatta Jr 1). That is the biggest understatement. Aylmer clearly only has one goal which is to remove that scar at no cost. Georgiana should have not stayed with him. Saying all this, shows that Georgiana did not have a clear, good head on her shoulders. Roseburg claims that, “Georgianna differs from Aylmer not only in the nature of her failure but in her clear-sightedness” (3). However, Georgianna did not have a clear head her’s was the most clouded. She was too in love to see Aylmer for who he really was. Also, she and Aylmer are actually very similar. They both fail in similar but somewhat different ways. She fails in the sense that she lets Aylmer control her and her emotions. As well, Aylmer fails in being a scientist and a terrible partner to Georgiana. All