The Birthmark Essay, Research Paper
The Birthmark
Would you ever kill the man or woman that you loved? Just to satisfy your deep
inner passion for science? One man did, he slowly made his wife?s life shorter by every
passing day. It is your choice to feel that he loved his wife, or he loved her just to make a
science project. You should never mix work with love as this man ?unfortunately? found
out. Now you must learn a little bit about the characters to base your assumption. Aylmer
is the husband that tried desperately to get a minor imperfection out of his lovers? face, the
mark was so small that she could cover it with two fingers. Aylmer?s wife was
Georginia, the mark was on her left cheek, it was described as a singular mark, deeply
interwoven. I feel as though he did love his wife, not for her companionship and love but
for her birthmark so he could devote his life to trying to remove it than caring for his
loved one.
You now know about the man that was so devoted to his work he ignored his
wife, and the wife that was slowly fading away at each passing day. Now? the mark was
given at birth something you are blessed to have some have it on their ear, some have it on
certain parts of the body, like their arms, legs, and so on. I feel that birthmarks are there to
let you know you are different form everyone else, how many people can say
they have a black dot on their right ear for a birthmark. I doubt many, but that is how I
feel, its sort of like your own originality because you?re the only one doing it. To love
someone is to feel something inside you that makes you happy whenever you
see the person. Your day brightens up just a little when you see this person, its something
you both share and you know when you are accepted for who you are?
your appearance, you
all. Aylmer was always trying to think up a concoction to destroy the birthmark on his
wife?s face. He dreamed of it, he fantasized about removing it. Georginia was scared
because what is it left cureless deformity, but Aylmer was not worried about the deformity
because to him it didn?t matter. All that mattered is that the blemish would have to soon
disappear, whether she was alive or not. He made mixtures, he tried just about everything,
and in the end he figured out how to get rid of it, but it would cost a life. Before he does it
she says ?there is danger? and ?Heaven knows your words are too true, and now, dearest
return to your boudoir, in a little while all will be tested.? She then drank the concoction,
and the next day Aylmer was successful ?SUCCESS, SUCCESS? he shouted. He went to
her bed and waited till she awoke and told her that he was happy and a master scientist.
When she woke up he said ?AHHH, Georginia you are perfect,? As the birthmark
faded so did her energy, her soul if you will, her life was through her birthmark. Now
without it her life slowly faded away. She replied with ?You have done nobly, and you
should not repent what you have rejected the best the earth could offer. Aylmer,
dearest Aylmer, I am dying!? Then you hear Aylmer laugh.
In the end I feel that Aylmer loved his wife? He loved to work on her. To him she
was his little science project, and nothing more. There was no love in that relationship
coming from him, just a devotion to science at which in the end killed his one and only
wife. Love shouldn?t just be for looks that?s not what its all about, its about how the
person you are with makes you smile, makes you happy, makes you feel like you are the
only two people in the world that matter.