In: Psychology
“The birthmark” is the story in which a scientist is stuck on removal of a birthmark that is present on the cheek of his wife. A person loving as well as thoughtful are generally referred to as being romantic. Romantics are people who have strong emotion depiction. The birthmark is a romantic since aylmer is in love with her, though, he is obsessed with her in reaching perfect beauty and the path to reach this perfect beauty is removal of a mark from her cheek. In this, the obsession is a symbolism of romanticism. According to the romantic authors, there is an importance of of strong emotions. He is in love with his science, and also his wife. Though, his love for science is way more than the love for his wife. He is in a romantic relationship with his science. For him, his romance for science is so great, that he sounds time authentic his wife just so that he could study her and her birthmark. His obsession of completion of portion is so high, that even after knowing that the final potion would be lethal, he administers Jr to her.
Moreover, georgiana, his wife, is so obsessed with aylmer, that she would go to any extent with him so that he would be happy. Even if it would mean that she would have to kill her self. Even after being administered by the potion, which is killing her slowly, she is not angry but happy that aylmer is happy with his work.