LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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She understands that it will lead her husband to his greatest scientific achievement.
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She wants to experience life as a beautiful woman rather than as an ugly one.
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She recognizes that the world will not accept her as she is.
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She knows that neither she not her husband will have peace if the birthmark remains.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Answer: She knows that neither she nor her husband will have peace if the birthmark remains.
Detailed explanation-2: -Georgiana is willing to give her life in order to please her husband. She says that Aylmer is a great scientist who is renowned throughout the world. If he can find a way to remove the birthmark, she wants him to so that she can be at peace.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aylmer undertakes to eliminate the birthmark from his wife’s cheek because in so doing he would realize his greatest scientific achievement and rescue his career from the failure he privately considers it to be.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born with a birthmark that looks like a small hand on her left cheek, Georgiana wants her husband to love her and admires his pursuit of beauty. She painfully regrets that he finds her beauty marred by the birthmark; as a result, she submits to his experiments to remove 4 Page 5 the “imperfection.”
Detailed explanation-5: –Georgina cannot survive the removal of the birthmark because he is removing a piece of her. She says, “I am dying."