...but to him she has one flaw. His wife has a birthmark on her cheek. It is a small birthmark shaped like a hand. The husband even though he does love his wife he can’t help, but to be bothered by the birth mark a little bit. Her husband told her that she came nearly perfect, but the birthmark is keeping her from perfection. Georgiana’s husband is a renowned scientist. Her husband wishes to remove the birthmark from his beloveds face. Her husband has had a dream of him removing the mark. In his dream he is trying to remove it from her face, but the harder her tries the further and further it digs itself into her face. The dream does frighten and freak him out a little bit, but he still is going to attempt to remove it. He takes his wife to his lab to do the procedure of removal of the mark. His wife is taking everything he has in there. She finds a potion that is quite strong to remove freckles from ones face. She kindly asks her husband is this what you are going to use on me to remove my mark, he replies no you’ll need something much stronger. So he does the procedure and he is successful in removing the mark, but since he removed the mark his wife died soon after it was removed. The irony I find in it is that his wife really honestly was perfect, her birthmark did not make her imperfect it just added more character to her beauty. Her husband removed the mark and to him she is finally perfect, but wanting his wife to be his definition of perfect he ended up losing the love of his...
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...The birth-mark on Georgiana’s cheek in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Birth-Mark, was a characteristic of hers that she adored. Her husband had considered perfect until after they got married and her and her husband got intimate. He saw her birthmark as an imperfection and wanted to make her the perfect woman that she could be without her birthmark. Although, he did not know that removing her birthmark would have unpleasant consequences. This birthmark that Georgiana possessed was a charm to her, but for her husband, Aylmer, it was a shock (4-5). He believed that his wife was perfect, but that birthmark made it impossible for him to think about anything else except removing it to make her perfect. Aylmer describes the hand as “its...
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...The perfect crime is a crime that yields satisfactory results, and at no point has any negative repercussions. The word perfect indicates something that is completely positive, and has nothing wrong with it. One example of the perfect crime would be the the murders of the Zodiac Killer; he claimed to have killed 37 people, and sent letters to newspapers and police taunting them, but he was never found. He got away with all of his acts unscathed. In the play Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, kills the king of Scotland, and takes his role as the king. After he kills the king, there are many things that go wrong. After the murder, Macbeth is driven insane, has more people killed, does a terrible job of ruling, and sees his wife take her own...
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...finally Hortensio who is trying to tame his wife Widow who is a shrew. The author Shakespeare uses the title of the play convey the theme of how anyone can even tame the worst shrew. Bianca turns from a completely nice quiet girl to a shrew towards the end the story. In ACT two, Bianca says “I swear, dear sister, I have not yet encountered that special face I might prefer to any other” (Shakespeare 75). To explain Bianca acts very respectful and nice in this scene and later on Kathrine let’s her inner shrew out. The author William Shakespeare wrote ”The more fool you for betting on my loyalty” (45). To explain why Bianca is acting like this is because she now does not have to act nice and quiet because she’s already married and can do anything she wants. This relates to the thesis because Bianca was very respectful and now how she got married she let her inner shrew out which relates you can not judge a book by its cover....
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...Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two” is the perfect representation of how our opinions on others, especially significant others, can often change or be influenced by other. The story tells of two newlyweds, Mr. Waythorn and his wife Alice. Everything is well until Alice’s two ex-husbands come onto the scene. It is easily observable how this affects Waythorn’s opinion of his new wife. In the beginning all is perfect but he soon sees how Alice’s past has shaped her into the woman and wife she is. Waythorn’s attitude winds around throughout the story as he is around her exes and learns of her past. The story begins during the first night that Alice is staying with her new husband in his house. Waythorn is excited and although he knows of Alice’s previous marriages, “had an amused confidence in his wife’s ability to justify herself.” (Wharton 1685). This was a time when divorce was not socially acceptable so you can imagine how people would’ve looked upon someone who had...
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...Flight to Pittsburgh In our society we have a lot of ideals of how you must be, how you should act and how you should look. These ideals often represent how we think a perfect man or perfect woman is. And it is difficult to live up to these ideals, often it is impossible but we are trying really hard anyway. In this story we see how it is to pursue such an ideal from a man, Hank’s point of view. We also see how destroying it can be when a person thinks the ideal is a reality and possible. Hank is a middle aged man, 52 years old, and married to Faye. He has a daughter, Julie with Faye. Julie is married with Russell, but she has just called and said that he has hit her. She specifically asks to see her father. This implies that Julie sees her father as the “Superman,” who will come and save her whenever she is in trouble. We also know that Julie and Russell lives in a house, there is a “replica of his own,” Hanks house. The fact that she is living in a house, which is an exact copy of her father’s supports this. Who builds a house there is an exact copy of one’s parents’? Most daughters and sons would build their own after what they find them most suitable. But she builds a house exactly like her father’s because she still looks up to him like a little girl would look up to her father. The house could also be a symbol of the father, in the way it surrounds her, like a hug, the comforting hug from a father you know always will be there for you. Another thing that supports this...
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...are only some examples of the condition. Hawthorne focuses this condition into his two main characters in the story Aylmer a brilliant scientist obsessed with perfection, and his wife Georgiana who is willing to give everything even her life to be apart of Aylmer’s perfect world. Aylmer shows his obsession with perfection in his work and dreams. He is known in the world for his success in the sciences. His many discoveries’ of the physical world leads him into journeys in to conquering the spiritual world. This leads his mind into thinking of more disturbing experiments. Though he states he would never would act on any of his more outlandish ambitions. Some of his more controversial ideas include, turning metal into gold, creating human life from scratch and even creating a potion which gives the drinker eternal life. He believes that such things are capable under his hand. Hawthorne only make this characters obsession with perfection more noticeable and even gives the idea that Aylmer wants control over nature its self. Once Aylmer and his wife Georgiana move into together, He quits his life of science and commits his time to his wife. Though he an his wife had been together for sometime before his resignation from his work he never seemed to fully notice the birthmark on the cheek of his wife. Though the birthmark for years had been a sign of beauty on the young woman’s face and had been only lead men to risk death only for a touch, but the mark was only seen as an imperfection...
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...Personal Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” While reading “The Birthmark”, I realized that it might be a way of the author to critique science, and how it tries many times to acquire perfection. The author relates the story of Aylmer, a young scientist who kills his beautiful wife trying to remove a birthmark that she had in her face. His attempt to make his wife perfect, got Georgina to die in the procedure. Aylmer got so obsessed with Georgina’s birthmark, to the point that when he looked at her he would only see the mark. Georgina was what could be described as the perfect wife. She loved her husband, and also loved his love for science, and admired his job. She was also really intelligent and on the other hand she did not...
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...Proverbs 31: The Assumptions and What We Should Learn From Her A normal assumption of the Proverbs 31 woman is a woman who is perfect. A woman who has her whole life put together, is simply astonishing in every way, and is surprisingly a woman that many Christian women dread to read about. What makes this woman so significant is not that she knows how to cook, clean, care for her children, and work hard, it is her wisdom that shines through and her fear of the Lord that makes her a woman of virtue. Other people have speculations of the Proverbs 31 woman; being too feministic, figuratively speaking on what a woman should and should not be, and trying to create a cookie cutter woman that is seen as perfect. Proverbs 31 is a great chapter, yet why do so many hate on it? Most people know about the Proverbs 31 woman, but most people actually don’t know the real story of the man behind this. The content of this chapter was written by a mother to her son, King Lamuel, who most people believe to be King Samuel. So if it was King Samuel than that means that the mother was Bathsheba, also the wife of King David. Proverbs 31 was actually meant for men, not necessarily women. It’s the man’s responsibility to find this woman who is rare to find because she is a jewel among many stones that symbolize the worldly women. Proverbs 31 was meant to be memorized for Jewish men. Yet many Christian women seem to cringe when reading Proverbs 31 because of the feeling of inadequacy. Some even speculate...
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...First, The Crucible Acts 1-2 will be summarized. People begin to talk about witches and the town becomes frightened. Because the “cursed” girls accused so many people, the court decided to hold trials. They began arresting people that looked guilty at first, because of who they are. After a while, innocent people who went to church were arrested. Since the court wanted to rid their world of evil, they began to hang and arrest innocent people. Next, the events in “The Birthmark” will be discussed. A male chemist was married to a beautiful lady. The lady had a red birthmark on one of her cheeks that looked like a hand. The husband despised this mark and wished to remove it. The wife was weary about this at first, but then she realized...
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...Ques: What are the reason why two perfect individual are never two perfect couples. with the 7 decision making process solve the problem. The 7 decision making processes are: 1. Define the problem 2. Identify limiting factors 3. Develop potential alternatives 4. Analyze the alternatives 5. Select the best alternatives 6. Implement the decision 7. Establish a control and evaluation system Introduction A perfect marriage may be an illusion although the people involve may be perfect individual in their own right. This situation may arise because the two may be considered as two different captains who have now come together to pilot a ship. Each comes on board with their own ideology and conceptions; as such differences are likely to occur. With this in mind it is important to note that problems are bound to occur in marriages. Case scenario Take for instance the case of a couple who have been married for 7years and filled with problems. The man is a very renowned minister of the gospel and the woman Medical Doctor. In the eyes of the public everyone see them as the wonderful couple but deep within themselves they realize that all was not well with their marriage. In the beginning, the couple were able to get along with each person trying to complement the effort of the other to make the marriage work. They enjoyed one another’s company because they were both meeting each other’s expectation. The couple also spent a lot of time together during the early part...
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...in “A Wall of Fire Rising” the balloon was a symbol of freedom, and in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the girl in the wall symbolized John’s wife. In “The Birth-Mark” the girl that had the birthmark was considered to be perfect, with her only flaw being the birth-mark. The birthmark then showed how every human, no matter how close, is not perfect. “With the morning twilight Aylmer opened his eyes upon his wife’s face and recognized the symbol of imperfection” (Hawthorne 213-214). This symbol set up the entire story by making it so that Aylmer wanted to get rid of his wife’s birthmark. At the end of the story the birthmark was removed, but she died, symbolizing that no one in this world is perfect. The balloon in “A Wall of Fire Rising” symbolized the freedom...
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...decides to have the birthmark removed. In my opinion this story is about how a man fails when he tries to play god and his failure to understand that perfection is attainable. It also deals with man’s failure to realize that it is our imperfections, not our perfections, which makes us unique. I found myself disliking this story very much. Why couldn’t Aylmer just accept his wife as is, why couldn’t he just realize that she was perfect just the way she was? In trying to “perfect” Georgiana, Aylmer is testing God’s creation. He doesn’t believe that how God created Georgiana is perfect, and he is obsessive about making her his idea of perfection. This story is a perfect example of how society is today and of our obsession with physical perfection is. Even today, people try to play “God” and change things that nature has put in place. Its human curiosity; how much can be changed, how many things can be perfected? As human beings, we are not perfect! It is part of our nature to be flawed one way or another. But there are some who choose to believe the opposing view. Aylmer’s own desire for not accepting his wife for who she was ultimately leads to her death. He...
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...their husbands, and being free from the appearance of immorality. In the 19th century there was a huge emphasis on being a good wife to your husband and being a caring mother...
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...The decline of the west is a short story written by Hanif Kureishi. The story is about a man who lives by the capitalistic values, but also experiences its weaknesses. The main character of the short story is a 45-year-old man called Mike. He lives outside of London with his wife and two children in a five-floor house. He works in corporate finance and makes a decent amount of money compared to the average citizen. Mike has always provided his family with everything they ever wanted and this have resulted in a very ungrateful son and wife. His youngest son does not yet show the same level of ungratefulness as the wife and eldest son does. Mike is a very patient and positive man, who seems to put his life in a more positive light than it is in reality. He has an expectation of his home to be a happy place, where he is able to relax and recharge: “He’d been looking forward to opening the door into the warm hall, hearing the voices of his wife and children (…)” . He has this dream of a life with a perfect wife and perfect children, where they all live in harmony and respect of one another. Through the short story though, he realizes that it is not the life he is actually living. In the beginning of the short story, there is a blackout in the house. He has been under a lot of pressure for so many years, and when he think he is going to die on the stairs, he suddenly feels some sort of release. This near-death experience changes Mikes way of looking at his world, and he realizes...
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