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By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Alymer is immediately portrayed as a man of science…why is this distinction so important? What does the text say about his wife Georgiana? The “Bloody Hand” destroys the “effect of Georgiana’s beauty” (646). Is Alymer the only one that feels this way? Georgiana learned to “shudder at his gaze” (647); what has Alymer allowed this to do to his marriage?
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“It is in her heart now – we must have it out!” (647). What has Alymer decided? Aminidab-the trusted servant that does whatever he is asked. Why does Georgiana consent to this madness? “Is this beyond your power, for the sake of your own peace, and to save your poor wife from madness?” (648).
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Alymer makes a totally separate suite of rooms for this experiment…he also doesn’t let Georgiana leave. “If she were my wife, I’d never part with that birth-mark” (649); what is Aminidab saying here? Elixir of Immortality…the “most precious poison that ever was concocted” (651); what does this foreshadow?
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How does Georgiana feel as she examines the book that was “both the history and the emblem of his ardent, ambitious, imaginative, yet practical and laborious life” (652); what does this tell us about Alymer? What does Georgiana discover as she enters the lab? What is Georgiana willing to do if it means giving Alymer comfort?
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Alymer finally makes the birth-mark disappear…unfortunately, it results in Georgiana’s death. What happened? What went wrong? What is the intended purpose of this story?
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