Thursday, September 20, 2012
Analysis of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aylmer is described in the beginning as a man who is a great scientist and loves nature, who also has a beautiful wife that he loves. Despite the amount of love Aylmer has for his wife, the birthmark on her cheek is a big imperfection and he wishes to remove it. He even gets Georgiana to hate it and wish it gone. His striving for perfection came to the death of his wife.
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I think it is strange at how the beginning of the story he is so in love with her and finds nothing wrong, but as the story goes on, he finds this imperfection with her. How could he hate it so much that it would drive him to kill his wife?
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