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As in all the writings of Hawthorne, when we finished reading his stories you come up with more questions than answers. No other writer's question like Hawthorne. The philosophical question of what the true perfection and can be achieved by physical means or is a state of mind, the heart of the story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birth-Mark.
Aylmer, the main character of the story is a brilliant scientist / alchemist. He has faith in the ultimate control "over a personThe nature of thought, and there is nothing the man can not achieve, or master. His obsession with children of his wife angioma imperfect, that looks like a hand, begins shortly after they married. Perfection Aylmer with his wife Georgiana is fixed, he believes, so that the experience of perfect love, has an ideal woman for love. His passion gradually possession Georgiana, at that point becomes so desperate that Aylmer says "remove this dreadful hand, or takemy miserable life. "Aylmer sits down and tells his wife that there may be risks, but it is certain that he remove the check mark and his beautiful bride, perfect in every way. It provides a comfortable environment for his wife as" beautiful apartments not worth a try, the home island with a beautiful woman. "According to the alchemist, and a variety of methods to remove the mark of his wife, has developed an elixir" perfect "that no doubt look after and makeperfect. He manages this elixir, and his great joy seems to be starting to fade and disappear bloody hand, only to have his wife tell him "Aylmer-dearest Aylmer, I'm dying!"
Georgiana reached perfection in the eyes of Aylmer in his dying moments, he got what Aylmer set? I think he has done. Aylmer was a man who loved his job, he loved science more than he ever love a man. He was a man full of its shortcomings andShortcomings and consequently its low position of himself, has asked for perfection in his wife. This will be displayed when Georgiana reads from his book, he describes as "a sad confession and continual exemplification, the shortcomings of a man in the composite. Aylmer was a self-serving individual consumers, whose sole purpose is to his perfect wife for his own sake, or perhaps true for the sake of science. All these things to be, I think he loved Georgiana, and the ownweird how he wanted to be perfect for his own good, because he believed that she deserved nothing less. In search of perfection (which is impossible in a purely material, destroyed).
Aylmer's wife Georgiana was at first a happy woman, she believed that someone who married a great man, until one day her husband told her that the mark may be removed on the cheek. Of course this is the beginning of his obsession, as her husband, with removal of her aIncompleteness. The first, what was in my mind about Georgiana was his eternal love, loyalty and desire to please her man. This was much a sign of the times. The fact that they prefer to meet his disapproval, as I am dying significant. It seemed like the ultimate demonstration of love and altruism, is given to a neutral level, which is arrogant on the line "You! - You have done nobly, no regret, that with so high and pure feeling, it wasshowed the Earth could offer better. Georgiana did not feel hurt her husband because he thinks that his feelings to those of pure love.
The will cover topics like Frankenstein Marry Shelly in the idea that man can possess a supernatural power to cancel and perfect what is imperfect. Aylmer does not believe in God or the natural laws which he created, which is evident by his faith in the ultimate control on the nature of man. God created man as a part of nature and wenon-integrated nature, but with it. Just as today we are fighting against the ethics of better understanding of science that we know that the natural law. The story of Mark Hawthorne's birth is only now as it was when in 1843, if not more written. Today we struggle with issues such as cloning, stem cell research and other aspects of science that seem at odds with God and the laws of nature. In the face of modern problems that we are nowHawthorne's views would probably be the very place he has put in this short story, when man tries to achieve what was not intended to be a disaster to reach the final result. The hand was not only a desire but an integral part of the soul, Georgiana, and the elimination of the mark in the quest for perfection was his undoing.
Hawthorne tells us that humanity is not perfect, is not perfection in the physical sense, and the only way to reach perfection is throughthe spirit of death. The Christian parallel is clear here, none of us is perfect and the only way to become perfect is to become one with God, death, which results in our skyward. This goes back to what we are who we are, we are not just flesh and blood, our soul and our true self to go much further.
Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the philosophical and ethical issues should relate to that are valid at the time as ours. His work makes us thinkWhat is perfection and it is desirable that the physical condition. In the end it turns out that if we can overcome our limitations and try to perfect what is imperfect, death is the final result, because only death, by God, we will reach perfection.
John Schlismann
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