Character Analysis: The Birthmark

Throughout the whole short story, the scenery and tone was dark and psychotic in a sense because the characters in the story were getting crazier and angrier by the moment as the birthmark of the wife, Georgiana, still lasted. In this quote it explains the situation that the main characters, Georgiana and Aylmer are in. This quote depicts the scene in which Aylmer, the husband, is trying to get rid of the hideous birthmark that his wife, Georgiana, has on her cheek. Aylmer says that if his experiment to try and get rid of the birthmark fails, Aylmer and Georgiana will live a life of despair because Aylmer will not be happy to look at Georgiana's dreadful birthmark according to Aylmer. Georgiana then gets upset because Aylmer sounds afraid to do the experiment but, Georgiana does not care and says that if Aylmer does not remove the birthmark both husband and wife will go insane. …show more content…
One side were the Light Romantics and the other side, Nathaniel Hawthorne was part of it, the Dark Romantics. The Dark Romantics shared the twisted and dark fantasies of the human mind, which "The Birth Mark" did. This quote brings a different approach to American Culture since, most of the time everyone has just been talking about the development of how people live and how they judge others based on race while, something like this quote portrays the insanity of the human mind, and how the human mind thinks. "The Birth Mark" is just one of many examples that advanced the cultures that some people had or have even today, for example today there is a subculture called Goth where it describes anything from music to just dress where it gives people a dark