Georgina

In the late 1800’s, the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France to celebrate their commitment to the principles of liberty. The statue was dedicated in New York Harbor and the decision was made to light the torch in 1886. The statue became a symbol of freedom and hope for many people including Emma Lazarus. It inspired Lazarus to write the poem “The New Colossus” in 1883 for a fundraising campaign by artists and writers to pay for the statue’s pedestal. Her poem was inspiring…

Georgina is a extremely beautiful women who is fancied by many men. Her husband, Aylmer, takes pride in knowing that she belongs to him. One day he realizes that he can remove the birthmark on Georgina's face. Aylmer asks his wife if she has ever thought about removing it and she replies no. Even tho she says she has not, Aylmer's is no longer looking at Georgina as his wife, he is looking at her as a scientific experiment. She says…

How have Eliza and Georgina grown up to be? Are they foils of one another? Eliza isn’t much of a beauty but is somewhat intelligent and very religious. She knits, cleans or reads all the time. While Georgina, as she was as a child has grown up to be gorgeous yet so very vain and dumb. She only complains and whine and does nothing all day. They both are complete…

Katelyn Napolitano Mr. O’Hagan English 11 8 March 2017 GIRL, INTERRUPTED Girl, Interrupted. To some it's a brilliant novel for psychology major students, to others it’s an intriguing film from the 20th century. But why is this book so loved? Susanna Kaysen was a 18 year old girl that was admitted to McLean Hospital to be treated for borderline personality disorder and depression. It was very important for her to be admitted because someone with suicidal tendencies should be helped. She said…

money, or her children” (Funk, Wagnalls). Now in 2017 women respect and valued their spouse opinion but they value more about their own opinion and morals than somebody else’s. Women do not feel obligated to do something if they do not want to do it. Georgina the female main characters in the short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth Mark” she makes the decision she did because she wanted to pleased her husband no matter if it risked her life. In the eighteen-century woman had to…

wife’s appearance to make her “look” more beautiful. In the story when Aylmer asked Georgina if she ever thought about removing her birthmark, she replied saying “To tell you the truth it has been so often called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so.” When Georgina says this, it shows how she did not mind her birthmark being there, never thinking it as a bad thing. Aylmer proposes a plan to Georgina about removing her birthmark. He then convinces her to say yes. This…

“The Birthmark” In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, “The Birthmark”, Aylmer is a crazy scientist who gave up everything to marry who was to him, the most perfect woman he has ever known which name is Georgiana. As we know, nothing is perfect in life, neither Georgiana was. From Aylmer views, Georgiana was so perfect morally and spiritually. However, Aylmer was unhappy with a little imperfection on Georgiana’s face, which makes him obsessed by such powers that he wanted to experiment on his wife…

impossible physical standards that the evil puppeteers have wired into their brains. According to a survivor of this monster, model Georgina Wilkin, "[her] agent told [her] I looked great when I [had not] eaten for 48 hours. At one point [she] was hospitalized because [she] was so ill -- a few weeks later [she] was booked for a Prada campaign" (Krupnick, Ellie). According to Georgina Wilkin, who said she has seen people pluck out their own teeth to look skinny to models digesting cotton balls to…

Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 best-selling novel “Girl, Interrupted,” is a memoir about her time spent at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Massachusetts, in 1967 after swallowing 50 aspirin. She only spends less than twenty minutes speaking to a doctor during which he diagnoses her with having borderline personality disorder with schizophrenic tendencies. He then swiftly and forcibly sends her to McLean Hospital where she spends nearly two years of her life, at the age of 18, in the ward for…

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 film starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie about a women’s 18-month stay in a mental institution. The film takes place in the late 1960’s and focuses around a main character by the name of Susanna Kaysen. The following summary was written with help from the American Mental Health Foundation website and Wikipedia. In the beginning of the film we learn that Susanna Kaysen had overdosed by taking an entire bottle of aspirin followed by a bottle of vodka. Despite many…