Both “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Eye of the Beholder” by Rod Serling are both short stories that introduce two young‚ beautiful women who‚ despite their beauty‚ are castigated by positions of power for their uniqueness. While Hawthorne uses symbolism and third person omniscient storytelling to create an allegory in which perfection among the common is what’s desired by its characters‚ Serling tells of a world in which the thing that’s unacceptable by society’s standards is non uniformity
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Imagery Imagery is the language and poetry that is often visual and with big discrete words bring an image to the reader’s brain. In the two poems “Kind of Blue” by Lynn Powell and “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” by William Shakespeare it is clear that in both of the poems that they use adjectives and are concrete in there writing in order to spark the five senses in imagery. In both of these short poems it is clear that the type of imagery that they use is visual imagery. In “Kind of
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101 Mrs. Jen 10 September 2014 A Close Read of “The Birthmark” In “The Birthmark‚” a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ he uses symbolism and allegories to show the conflict between man and nature. On the surface of the story Aylmer’s reason for wanting to remove the only flaw in his wife‚ a flaw left by nature‚ was to improve the beauty of his wife. However under the surface of the story we see that Aylmer’s obsession to remove the birthmark and find perfection in his wife is man trying to perfect
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them to hold their feelings in. Especially when characters face an emotional breakdown and let their pent up feelings out. In “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hawthorne shows Georgiana’s internal conflict‚ and her emotional distress by saying‚ “‘Shocks you‚ my
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Hawthorne’s short story‚ "The Birthmark." Aylmer’s persistent attempt to perfect nature is the cause of Georgiana’s demise and the affirmation that when man tampers with such a powerful component terrible things may occur. In this short story‚ Hawthorne uses symbolism to emphasize the strange shape of the "earthly imperfection" (204) and his desperate need to change it. The shape of the birthmark "bore a little similarity to the human hand" (204). Here‚ Hawthorne’s use of symbolism clearly illustrates
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Imagery in “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe is best known for ominous short stories. In “The Cask of Amontillado” ‚ Poe uses imagery to enhance the mood‚ setting and characters of the story. Poe uses imagery to create a horrific and dark mood. For example‚ Poe writes‚ “ We had passed through walls of piled bones with casks and puncheons intermingling into the inmost recesses of the catacombs”. By using words such as “bones” and “catacombs” Poe incites thoughts of horror and death
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Plato’s “The allegory of the Cave” addresses so many different areas of philosophy including‚ epistemology‚ metaphysics‚ asceticism‚ ethics‚ etc. In his allegory it is important to seek what Plato is trying to accomplish through locating his rhetorical devices‚ his tone‚ his position and arguments‚ in order to develop meaning to his allegory. Plato’s philosophies include education‚ interaction‚ individuality‚ and human nature to make his statement of what the correct path to “enlightenment” should
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The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story The Birthmark‚ the narrator introduces us to Aylmer‚ a brilliant scientist who spent his life studying nature extensively to the detriment of his own personal life. His wife‚ Georgiana‚ has been marked with a small‚ red birthmark on her cheek that most men found attractive all her life. Aylmer only sees this birthmark as a flaw and his desire for perfection can only result in death for Georgiana because becoming an ideal
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Psychoanalysis of Aylmer in “The Birthmark” In pop culture‚ obsessive-compulsive disorder‚ or OCD‚ is often used as a synonym for a “neat-freak” or Type-A perfectionist. However‚ the roots of this mental disorder originate in the human psyche. According to Dr. Wayne Goodman‚ a professor of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai‚ “The symptoms of OCD symbolize the patient’s unconscious struggle for control over drives that are unacceptable at a conscious level.” Because literature
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“The Artist of the Beautiful”‚ and “The Birthmark”. Hawthorne’s writings often reflected romantics’ beliefs in nature and contained his message about science and man’s quest for perfection. An example where these ideas are shown‚ are in Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark”. In this story‚ a scientist named Aylmer grows tired of his beautiful wife’s birthmark and asks her if she would remove it. Although his wife stated that she does not mind the birthmark‚ Aylmer obsessively detest it to a point
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