What is Love in "The Birthmark"
It is easy to see that the love between Aylmer and Georgiana in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's, "The Birthmark" is not a love that people seek to find with one another. One might even question whether it is truly love that they posses. Throughout the story, Aylmer proves that his love for her is unaccepting, and on the other hand Georgiana shows a kind of admiring love that he cannot comprehend. She welcomes everything about him and in return all she gets is a husband who hates the very existence of her birthmark that is placed upon her cheek. The mark that Georgiana once sees as a attribute is now a terrible complication that controls her husband and her marriage. A person might believe that the idea of love is accepting …show more content…
Hawthorne goes as far as to mention that Aylmer, "could never be weaned from them by any second passage," and by "them" he means "scientific studies" (Hawthorne 340). Already, Hawthorne has established that Aylmer could never love anything or anyone more than he loves science, which makes Georgiana subjective to him and his scientific studies. Someone who is truly in love with another person would never put something like a passion for science in front of someone they love, and in return Aylmer is not genuinely in love with …show more content…
She explains, "Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!" and in this statement she proves she is willing to give up her life because she loves him (Hawthorne 342). Georgiana wants Aylmer feel satisfied and accomplished even if it causes a deformity or worse it could mean her death, and this confirms her love for him. For Georgiana to be able to lay her life on the line to fulfill Aylmer 's morbid thirst to remove her mark, she is showing him a inhumanly acceptance and she would only do this out of
It is easy to see that the love between Aylmer and Georgiana in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's, "The Birthmark" is not a love that people seek to find with one another. One might even question whether it is truly love that they posses. Throughout the story, Aylmer proves that his love for her is unaccepting, and on the other hand Georgiana shows a kind of admiring love that he cannot comprehend. She welcomes everything about him and in return all she gets is a husband who hates the very existence of her birthmark that is placed upon her cheek. The mark that Georgiana once sees as a attribute is now a terrible complication that controls her husband and her marriage. A person might believe that the idea of love is accepting …show more content…
Hawthorne goes as far as to mention that Aylmer, "could never be weaned from them by any second passage," and by "them" he means "scientific studies" (Hawthorne 340). Already, Hawthorne has established that Aylmer could never love anything or anyone more than he loves science, which makes Georgiana subjective to him and his scientific studies. Someone who is truly in love with another person would never put something like a passion for science in front of someone they love, and in return Aylmer is not genuinely in love with …show more content…
She explains, "Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!" and in this statement she proves she is willing to give up her life because she loves him (Hawthorne 342). Georgiana wants Aylmer feel satisfied and accomplished even if it causes a deformity or worse it could mean her death, and this confirms her love for him. For Georgiana to be able to lay her life on the line to fulfill Aylmer 's morbid thirst to remove her mark, she is showing him a inhumanly acceptance and she would only do this out of