Thursday, September 20, 2012
Speaking of the Unspeakable: Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" - Zanger
This analysis is about the relationship between maturity and immaturity, Platonism and Christian authoritarianism. Striving for perfection beyond the human can be fatal. It says that marriage exists in complete isolation from society, totally fill the screen. Alymer's dominance over Georgiana is made very evident in the major settings of the story.
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I agree, Aylmer's dominance is definitely a main point I see in this story. His character is very straight forward and domineering. Back in this time women did not have the upper hand, ever however I feel that Aylmer and Georgiana's situation was even more so. Aylmer didn't even let Georgiana hold her own opinion. He made her hate the birthmark she once endured as her sign of an angel. The article I focused on dealt with feminism, and I think your point of Aylmer's dominance is another point in the feminism way of writing that Nathaniel Hawthorne chose to write this story with.
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