Creative Writing: The Birthmark

Now is the day of technological advancement and discoveries. Our ancestors have opened wondrous passages for us to take and follow and also for us continue their vision keeping in mind that the objective is to make the world a better place to live in. These ameliorations, however with pure intent, had compromising and inevitable effects to nature that we experience today. According to our forefathers, much has developed from before, not just the world we live in, but also the morality of today’s time. Plenty have started advocacies mainly to help eliminate or lessen the effects of inventions from previous generations and keep the world in its purest form. It is quite ridiculous how it is only now that we focus all our efforts to keep nature …show more content…
It is technically a defect, but also a mark that makes a person unique to everybody else. This birthmark made Georgina more precious and distinct, since she’s the only one in the world who has it. But Aylmer, her husband, thought of it as a hideous object, something that desolated her godly image and he intends to alter her through his knowledge of science. It was said that Aylmer thought little of it before, but he woke up one day haunted by the sight of the tiny birthmark on Georgina’s cheek. It is amazing how curiosity arises questions that could lead to progress but it is also dangerous since there are potential risks that could happen. And since Aylmer is a man of science, curiosity is what fuels his whole being. Aylmer now sees Georgina as an experiment, a patient whom he needs to help and save from an imagined monstrosity rather than his wife that needs support and unconditional love. He thought that if the removal becomes successful, he would be celebrated as one of the most intelligent creatures in the world. This act showed how men of ancient times were misogynistic and thought little of women, only thinking of themselves and the pride that their work will bring them. Aylmer, not only is misogynistic, but also is very ambitious and thinks he could correct what nature intended. Ambitious in a sense that, even though he’s been practicing science since his early age, his journal exposed that he never had a successful experiment and some merely abounding. His ambition is to be God, to beat nature into creating a being so pure and without any infirmity. He personifies nature thinking that he and nature could be on the same plain in creating magic and miracles showing how he could grow flora and create authentic fragrances. And Georgina, the mortal being, succumbs to her husband’s wishes in the name of love. She saw the passion and the work her husband is putting in, without