Many characters grow throughout the text and, in this case, they often grow inside of the laboratory. Aylmer begins the story with the hope that some of his scientific inquiries can be researched and are successful, yet by the end of the story: his laboratory journal is full of failures, his wife dies at the hands of his scientific concoction, and a number of his hypotheses and preconceived notions are proved wrong. Georgiana begins to find hope inside of the laboratory, yet she by the end of the story, she is uncomfortable and dead inside the laboratory. Overall, symbols in stories represent an abstraction or set of abstractions, and Hawthorne cleverly used the laboratory as both a major setting and a symbol for failure and death, despite its possibility to represent hope and
Many characters grow throughout the text and, in this case, they often grow inside of the laboratory. Aylmer begins the story with the hope that some of his scientific inquiries can be researched and are successful, yet by the end of the story: his laboratory journal is full of failures, his wife dies at the hands of his scientific concoction, and a number of his hypotheses and preconceived notions are proved wrong. Georgiana begins to find hope inside of the laboratory, yet she by the end of the story, she is uncomfortable and dead inside the laboratory. Overall, symbols in stories represent an abstraction or set of abstractions, and Hawthorne cleverly used the laboratory as both a major setting and a symbol for failure and death, despite its possibility to represent hope and