Showing posts with label The Birth Mark. Show all posts
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The outline story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birth Mark.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s The Birth Mark first published in 1846. It tells about a
scientist name Aylmer and his incapability to notice a birthmark on his wife’s
face. The story catalogues the development of Aylmer’s perplexity and its
reflexion on his life. Aylmer is married to a very beautiful and tremendous
woman, yet he is incapable to see past an identical hand-shaped defect on her
cheek. Hawthorne, in this whole story, only focuses on the mark until both he
and his wife become pathetic, she even more so than he. Aylmer as a man of
scientific thought, wishes to research on the mark in an effort to remove it,
to which his gloomy wife agrees. Hawthorne introduces Aylmer’s assistant, the
indecent looking Aminadab, on the day of experiment. Despite his solemn
outlook, Aminadab does not share Aylmer’s coarse obsession with the mark and
suggests another plan of action which is swiftly rejected. Through this
situation Hawthorne produces the difference between husband and wife, when
Georgiana gets a record of Aylmer’s past, failed experiments and comes to love
him more for his flaws. Finally the experiment takes place and the mark is
removed, but Georgiana dies in the process. The ending of the story celebrates
the moral lesson by Hawthorne to his readers that birthmarks and imperfections
are what makes us human, and attempt to dispel them is a sin in itself.
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