Answer 3 of the following questions using quotes from the story to back up your answers. Make sure to use proper MLA format. each answers should contain one quote in inverted comm from The birthmark (attached). each answer should be in a paragraph size.
- Why was Aylmer so disturbed by the birthmark, when others considered it a charm? What does he find so unacceptable about it?
- Why did Aylmer marry Georgiana if he hated the birthmark so much? Why does he want to remove it now? Why didn’t he address it before marriage, or earlier in their marriage?
- What were Aylmers real motives? Was there more to it than is obvious?
- Did Aylmer love Georgiana as much as he loved science?
- If Aylmer really loved Georgiana, why couldn’t he look past her birthmark?
- Why does she allow him to risk her life to remove the birthmark? To what extent is Georgiana responsible for her death?
- Is Aylmer, inventing this elixir, trying to play God?
- What is the significance of the descriptions of Aylmers laboratory?
- What do Aylmers other experiments reveal about the nature of his work? How do they constitute foreshadowing of what will happen to Georgiana?
- How did Georgiana really die?
