Birthmark

The Birthmark

The story is interesting and amusing, yet I'm still unsure about how to feel about it. Aylmer is a mad scientist and total d-bag that gets bored way too easy. He gets obsessed with his new bride  Georgian's birthmark. She was a beautiful woman who had many loves. She believed her birthmark to be sort of a charm all her life, until Aylmer comes along and tells her it makes her imperfect. The crimson red birthmark on the center of her left cheek is in the form of a tiny hand. Told by her lovers to be the hand print of a fairy as a token of magic gift that would give her power over her lovers hearts. Not everyone felt the birthmark to be magical, Georgiana was judge quite harshly by fellow women, describing it as a hideous bloody hand.

Aylmer constant remarks and harsh looks start to trouble her deeply. When her husband offers to try experiments on her to remove the awful birthmark she accepts. She prefers death to continuing to live on with the odious hand on her face. The next day he takes her and secludes her in his laboratory. Aminadab is Aylmers assistant, Georgiana describes him as a strong, short, bulky man with shaggy hair. Not very smart but loyal to his master Aylmer. 

 Days pass and she wonders when her husband will start the process of removing the birthmark. She passes the time by reading volumes of books in his library. She comes across his journal of experiments and realizes how much more she loves and admires Aylmer a genius he is even when many of his experiments had failed. He abstains from telling her he had been poisoning her with his different elixirs since they have arrived to his laboratory. He was successful in removing the birthmark but ended up killing her with his poison. 

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