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Summary Of The Birthmark

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The story about The Birthmark is about a scientist named Aylmer who is in love with his work, but at the same time he is love with a young woman named Georgiana. Later Aylmer and Georgiana get married, however Aylmer slowly beings to pay close attention to Georgiana’s birthmark on her cheek. The narrator describes the shape of the birthmark as a little hand and due to its shape Georgiana believes it’s from a fairy that has blessed her. Aylmer one night brings up Georgiana’s birthmark and suggest why she doesn’t get rid of it, at that moment Georgiana was insulted. Thus grew Aylmer’s obsession over the birthmark he could not stop thinking about it, he thought that it was a mark that signified as a sinful person. Georgiana and Aylmer started

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