English Composition II Blog on "The Birthmark"

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My blog on The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To allow someone to make oneself feel less than a person is not the kind of person to spend time with.  Georgiana wanted nothing but for her husband to look on to her with as much love as she did for him.  She knew he loved her, he knew she was a beautiful woman according to the story on page 1021. And she loved him just as dearly.

The crimson hand of a birthmark was odd, this is truth.  It was bright and stood out to the point that it must have frightened or, maybe, freaked her husband out for some reason.  She, on the other hand, was used to it because she mentioned it was "called a charm".  Probably as she grew up family consider the charm somewhat of a good luck.  But unfortunately because it horrified her husband, Aylmer, it also horrified her in return.

For someone to love, trust and respect someone enough to drink some deadly potion or actually poison, is just as weird as the crimson hand birthmark itself. Because he was horrified by the looks of it, it was wearing her down. It is terrible that a person can make another person feel that uncomfortable about their appearance that they are willing to risk their own lives to get rid of what someone else considers a flaw in appearance or beauty.

It is terribly that some people will actually go to deadly and extreme lengths to satisfy someone else's view of their appearance. It is wrong for people to do that to each other because in the end, just like Georgiana, they too could died.  Is it really worth living up to someone else opinion of how one should look.  The hope of helping his dear wife with what Aylmer deemed as a success, as short and temporal as that success was and his victory, in actuality, turned out to be his very own living nightmare because his beautiful wife with the "charmed" crimson hand shaped birthmark had died at his very own hands.  Such a shame. 

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No one should allow anyone to make them feel less of a person because of something someone else considers a flaw on them doesn't meet up to that other person’s standard of how they should look.