Nathaniel+Hawthorne

Birthmark


 * Summary**
 * The Birthmark** is a short story about a scientist named Aylmer who balances his love for science with his love for his wife Georgiana. They recently married and since then all that Aylmer can think about is Georgiana’s birthmark on her left cheek. The mark is __crimson__ red and changes color when she blushes. The mark can be covered up by two fingers and is in the shape of a hand. Aylmer thinks that the mark is her only imperfection and he expresses that **too** her, but Georgiana thinks it’s a charm. Aylmer has a dream that if they took the birthmark off her, it takes part of her away. Then the next day, they go to a servant named Aminadab and she faints. Aylmer is yelling at Aminadab to continue with the operation and Aminadab thin ks it’s a bad idea.

Georgiana regains consciousness and tells Aylmer to never look at the birthmark again. Aylmer says that she does not need to hide it because it’s her only imperfection. Then Aylmer goes off to create a new potion that will remove her mark and how it is the most powerful concoction in the world. Georgiana reads all of his journals and feels more in love with him. She realizes with all good things comes some bad things, or imperfections. Georgiana walks in Aylmer’s laboratory and Aylmer shows her the potion. She drinks the liquid and she falls asleep. While asleep, Aylmer watches closely for changes on Georgiana's cheek. The mark starts to go away and her skin becomes very pale. Aylmer is happy with the succe**ss but Geo**rgiana tells her husband that she is sick and is dying. Those were the last words that she tells Aylmer.

Aylmer was a man of science and thought that through science he could make anything flawless. His wife, Georgiana, had a small birthmark, her imperfection, on her face and Aylmer came up with a **concotion** to make Georgiana perfect. As the birthmark went away, the happier Aylmer was, but on the flip side Georgiana was dying. This **demenstrated** that not everyone is perfect. A**lso yo**u can not try to make someone perfect either because this will fail too. Aylmer loved science above all because when Georgiana was dying, Aylmer was very joyous to see that he had been success. **Instead of being sorrowful for killing his wife because of the imperfection on her check - FRAG!!!.**
 * Corrleation** spelled incorrectly!

"I don't know if this implies" but what I really got out of this from Almyer that there is always a cause and effect to every **decison**. This can either be in a good or bad way. To me this is very **noticable** with Alymer. I really enjoyed this **perticualar** story by Hawthrone because as far as I know i have not read a story to this nature. The story was also very interesting.
 * Reflection**