Analyzing Characters 'Marriage In Aylmer' By Zora Neale

Aylmer is a scientist who is dedicated to his work of skill more than anything. He is from a world of chemicals in a laboratory to a world of experimenting change for his wife. To Aylmer when he see flaws in someone he feels obligated to fix the problem. He has plans to marry a woman and make her a perfect human being in his eyes. Aylmer main goal is to keep making progress with science experiments. The wife Georgiana has been focusing on love for their marriage while Aylmer has been focusing on different alterations for his wife look.
Despite the transformation from the couple being in love in the first part of their marriage to not being please with each other because Aylmer is not satisfied with his wife appearance and the wife is not entertain
“The marriage of Aylmer and Georgiana initially indicates their unification, but the mark disrupts the unity of the couple and replaces Georgiana because the blemish” (Howard 134). Georgiana feelings was crushed to pieces because to her she thinks Aylmer is stating that she looks horrible. She lost confidence in her looks and she also started to feel unattractive. “Danger is nothing to me; for life, while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust, - life is a burden which I would fling down with joy” (Hawthorne 307). Georgiana will jeopardize her life so she can get the birthmark removed. To Georgiana life is not worth living because Aylmer is not satisfied with the way she look. She does not want Aylmer to feel hatred every time she look at
“Aylmer now remembered his dream” (Hawthorne 306). Aylmer had already vision a plan for the removal of Georgiana birthmark. “He had fancied himself with his servant Aminadab, attempting an operation for the removal of the birthmark; but the deeper went the knife, the deeper sank the hand, until at length its tiny grasp appeared to have caught hold of Georgiana’s heart” (Hawthorne 306). When he was thinking about performing the procedure everything did not go as plan. The plan is to remove the birthmark not to press it in any farther than it is already. “Aylmer’s obsessive resolve to cut away the mark from Georgiana’s heart illustrates that it, not she, the woman whose life he is willing to sacrifice in order to satisfy his pride and alchemic pursuits, is the center of his existence and the object to which he unifies himself” (Howard 134). Aylmer was not trying to please Georgiana and make her feel better he was trying to make himself look good. “Aylmer actions also communicate his need to protect himself and his dominant scholarly position” (Howard 135). Aylmer was selfish because he was trying to prove that science can fix anything. “Aylmer might be an experimenter but he is also a terrible experimenter” (Rosenberg 146). Aylmer passion was experimenting things but his experiments was not one hundred percent accurate. Everybody makes