The Birthmark Character Analysis

There is a shockingly twist at the end of this novel that readers would be so disappointed once they read Nathaniel’s Hawthorne “The Birthmark”. There lived a man who loved science and was also a philosopher, Aylmer. He then abandoned his experiments for true love, Georgiana. Once this young couple got married, Aylmer obsessed over Georgiana’s imperfection, her tiny hand birthmark. Aylmer being a crazed scientist sees himself and feels he has the power to remove this imperfection. Georgiana being bothered by her husband’s reaction to the birthmark agrees for him to remove her “charm” as it leads to her sleeping death. The use of a man of science setting in “The Birthmark” helped the readers understand that Aylmer was a man of perfection. When he marries his beautiful wife Georgiana her mark of a tiny hand on her left cheek became an issue with Aylmer, her husband. “In those days when the comparatively recent discovery of electricity and other kindred mysteries of Nature seemed to open paths …show more content…
He plays a part in Georgiana’s surgery, where he disagrees what Aylmer is deciding to do on his wife. Nonetheless he is more of a man because he is in touch with his true nature and comments that he would not remove the birthmark on Georgiana, whereas an “unnatural” man of science, Aylmer would. Aylmer sets up the scene as a real elegant room, where Georgiana couldn’t even recognize what the room was for. He makes Georgiana feel comfortable by showing her multiple potions and explains to her what he has created and how each of them work. She then found a book of Aylmer’s where many of his experiments went wrong. Aylmer noticed she feared about going on with the process of her birthmark. He then began his practice on Georgiana, once he saw that the redness was fading he was very happy that it worked. But, Georgiana woke and told Aylmer she was dying, he did not believe her much until the last tint of her face came off and Georgiana had