Perfection in the Birthmark
...tion, he failed to incorporate humanity. If he took the humanist approach and looked in the future, he would have been able to weigh the risk and make a more humane decision. Aylmer was so enthralled with the idea that he could change nature in his quest for perfection, he did not take the time to love the beauty that his wife possessed, nor did he take his wife’s feelings into consideration. Instead, he used manipulative techniques to get his wife to feel uncomfortable about her birthmark so that he could have a try at manipulating nature for the sake of science, which was obviously his first love. Sometime men equate success and perfection in their families with how well they do in society. Like Aylmer, they are blind-sided with that thought and lose whatever it is that they are trying to perfect. Being so focused on perfecting the thing that he though would make things better in his marriage only proved to him and many other men that something’s are better left in their natural element. In society, men are known as problem-solvers. They have the tendency to prioritize knowledge and power over ethics. Some men get so obsessed with being problem-solvers that they forget to enjoy the good that is right before their eyes. Georgiana was a submissive and passive wife who made a sacrifice for love. Being well aware of her husband’s success as a scientist and with his disgust with her birthmark, she agreed to allow him to remove it. Georgiana’s attitude is one t...