While timidly choked with emotion, as he had “a dry, cold tone, affected for the sake of concealing the real depth of his emotion” (Hawthorne 292), the minute Georgina brings up the subject of Aylmer’s dream in removing the birthmark, he reacted, “None! None whatever!” (Hawthorne 292) as she made her husband …show more content…
Georgina praised and swayed Aylmer to believe in his work. Only to discover, Aylmer’s precise concoction to eliminate the birthmark, was killing Georgina gently as she slept through the procedure. Beforehand, Georgina took the concoction, she told her husband, “let the attempt be made, at whatever risk” (Hawthorne 293). She was keen to sacrifice her life, “life is a burden which I would fling down with joy” (Hawthorne 293). The quote “The momentary circumstance was too strong for him...,” (Hawthorne 301) expresses Aylmer was left a widower and conceivably to blame himself for not disagreeing to his wife and solely accepting her