Love And Hate In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark

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An Undying devotion to love is one that can truly be amazing in its own way. People will do things to the extreme sometimes for love, not thinking about the consequences. Is having the ability to change nature by believing that someone has the power to do so, worth the risk? Or is the love towards a spouse worth a precious life? Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses himself with examples of a thin lines of love and hate in his short story, “The Birthmark”. Aylmer’s love for science out weights the love he has for Georgina his wife, which results in a fatality. Was Georgina’s love towards her Husband, being submissive, the cause her death. There’s a thin line between Love and hate which causes them to lose in the long run. Faulkner expresses the theme of love verses hate with, the love Aylmer has towards science, Aylmer’s love for Georgina, and then Georgina’s love for Aylmer.
Nevertheless, Aylmer’s level of unconditional love towards science is recurring
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“His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.” (Hawthorne 212). It is conceivable that a man could absolutely love a woman’s flawlessness and makes her into his version of a perfection. When people first date they see no imperfections in the other person until they live together. When they first met he saw no imperfections in Georgina and nature had made no mistake her Georgina. After a couple marries it becomes a completely whole different view in how they look at one another. For example, when he says “No, dearest Georgina, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature, that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.” (Hawthorne

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