The Four Character Contrast / Comparison Essay
In the following paragraphs are four different stories regarding four different characters. These characters are Rappaccini, in the story Rappaccini’s Daughter, Aylmer, in the story The Birth- Mark, Vere, in the story Billy Budd, and the Unnamed Narrator in story The Tell-Tale Heart. All these characters are individuals with complex personalities. However, each with their own circumstances and motives, paint a different picture in their stories, however, in the end, the art work is the same.
Dr. Rappaccini, in the story Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a man of intellect, a man who cared “more for science than for mankind” (Hawthorne 435). A selfish man, especially when …show more content…
He used unusual scientific methods, such as making drugs so powerful, that “freckles may be washed away as easily as the hands are cleaned” (Hawthorne 425). Aylmer’s wife, Georgiana, was a beautiful women, but she was born with a small birthmark, in the shape of a hand, on her check, and throughout her childhood, her birthmark was “often called a charm,” and Georgiana, “simple enough to imagine it might be so” (Hawthorne 419), was content and happy with her life. However, Aylmer was happy at first, but as time past, he began to feel differently about the birthmark. He asked Georgiana, “has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed” (418)? As, Aylmer saw the birthmark as “a visible mark of earthly imperfection” (419). Therefore, Aylmer being the mad scientist that he was, was motivated to make a special potion to remove the birthmark. However, once Georginia drank the potion, her birthmark did disappear, but she …show more content…
This Unnamed Narrator is defiantly a mental psychopath, for in the story, the Unnamed Narrator is all over the place in their descriptions and feelings and believes that this old man “has the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye” (Poe 691), and that he must die. The Unnamed Narrator even goes into detail, describing every step in the process in making his or her way to kill the old man. From turning the latch and gently opening the door, to their ability to “thrust” their head in, and states that, “you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in” (692). This Unnamed Narrator did this every night at midnight for seven nights, but could not kill this old man, because, he or she found the old man’s “eye always closed” (692), every night. At last, on the eighth night, his eye was open and the Unnamed Narrator “leaped into the room,” and “dragged him into the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” (693). Once dead, the Unnamed Narrator begin dismembering the old man, and “cut off the head and the arms and the legs,” and placed all “between the scantlings” (694). I really don’t know what to say about this story except the Unnamed Narrator was a sick, morbid,
In the following paragraphs are four different stories regarding four different characters. These characters are Rappaccini, in the story Rappaccini’s Daughter, Aylmer, in the story The Birth- Mark, Vere, in the story Billy Budd, and the Unnamed Narrator in story The Tell-Tale Heart. All these characters are individuals with complex personalities. However, each with their own circumstances and motives, paint a different picture in their stories, however, in the end, the art work is the same.
Dr. Rappaccini, in the story Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a man of intellect, a man who cared “more for science than for mankind” (Hawthorne 435). A selfish man, especially when …show more content…
He used unusual scientific methods, such as making drugs so powerful, that “freckles may be washed away as easily as the hands are cleaned” (Hawthorne 425). Aylmer’s wife, Georgiana, was a beautiful women, but she was born with a small birthmark, in the shape of a hand, on her check, and throughout her childhood, her birthmark was “often called a charm,” and Georgiana, “simple enough to imagine it might be so” (Hawthorne 419), was content and happy with her life. However, Aylmer was happy at first, but as time past, he began to feel differently about the birthmark. He asked Georgiana, “has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed” (418)? As, Aylmer saw the birthmark as “a visible mark of earthly imperfection” (419). Therefore, Aylmer being the mad scientist that he was, was motivated to make a special potion to remove the birthmark. However, once Georginia drank the potion, her birthmark did disappear, but she …show more content…
This Unnamed Narrator is defiantly a mental psychopath, for in the story, the Unnamed Narrator is all over the place in their descriptions and feelings and believes that this old man “has the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye” (Poe 691), and that he must die. The Unnamed Narrator even goes into detail, describing every step in the process in making his or her way to kill the old man. From turning the latch and gently opening the door, to their ability to “thrust” their head in, and states that, “you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in” (692). This Unnamed Narrator did this every night at midnight for seven nights, but could not kill this old man, because, he or she found the old man’s “eye always closed” (692), every night. At last, on the eighth night, his eye was open and the Unnamed Narrator “leaped into the room,” and “dragged him into the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” (693). Once dead, the Unnamed Narrator begin dismembering the old man, and “cut off the head and the arms and the legs,” and placed all “between the scantlings” (694). I really don’t know what to say about this story except the Unnamed Narrator was a sick, morbid,