I feel sorry for Aylmer. He cannot see the forest for the trees. Aylmer cannot see that he has a perfect wife. One who loves him for who he is not for what he looks like? It is a shame that he cannot love Georgiana the same way. When he married her this birthmark was not so important in his life. He could see the beauty that she beholds. Why did it become so important for him to remove it? Why was the love she felt for him not enough to satisfy him? Was her life not more important than a birthmark? Georgiana thought she married a man who loved her for who she is, only to find out that he could not stand to look at her because of the birthmark. How it must have torn at her heart to choose life with a man who cannot look at you without seeing the disgust in his eyes or death.
In today’s world there is a lot of Men and Woman who are consumed with their looks. Some will not leave their house unless, in their eyes, they look perfect. Beauty comes from within. When I meet someone I never look at them and think I am not going to like this person because they do not look perfect. Aylmer had the world. He had a woman who would and did anything he asks of her. Unfortunately, for Aylmer he put science first. Because of his love of science he could see the imperfections in his wife instead of the love in her heart. Aylmer loved his wife. He just could not look at anything and not see how he could improve upon it. The only imperfection that he could find in his wife was her birthmark. In his books he told of all the failures he had before he had success, now his wife has become one of those failures. I wonder, after her death at his hands, if he still thinks the birthmark is something he cannot live with.
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