Journal

Georgiana’s life is about to turn for the worse because of her handprinted birthmark. Her efforts are to always love her husband, but Georgiana is also knowledgeable. While Aylmer is away from her, she starts to read all of his recorded experiments. She finds out about his experiments that were successful or lead to failure. Georgiana understands his experiments and now loves Aylmer more than ever before. She is astonished by all of his achievements and will never second guess him. Georgiana ends up crying and whimpers, “it has made me worship you more than ever” She is now completely drawn to the fact that his procedure is going to work and is anxious to obey what he wants done to her. But in the back of Georgiana’s mind, she must somehow know that there is a chance that the procedure might not work. Georgiana is smart enough to know that and should be aware that Aylmer is about to perform a risky experiment on her. She knows that all his experiments do not work, and this should warn her about trusting her husband. However, she puts that aside and still wants to be a good wife instead of her own person. It is now time for Georgiana to drink the mysterious liquid. She does so and then falls asleep. She awakens and murmurs “my poor Aylmer” . She continues to whisper that to him. She then goes on and explains to him that he has “rejected the best the earth could offer”  Then lets him know she is dying. The whole time Georgiana knows she is going to die. She knows it because when she touches the flower it dies. She knows all along, but does nothing to stop it. She is intelligent, but is willing to risk everything to do what her husband wishes.

Yes, the birthmark is now gone, but at a tragic cost, But no, that is not the only thing that is gone. Her life. She dies because of doing what she is told by Aylmer. She lives her whole life suppressing her deepest feelings and not standing up for what she believes in. Georgiana could have stopped the experiment from happening, but she valued her husband’s happiness rather than her own. In the end, the only thing left is a failed experiment and a dead body. Aylmer must be happy that Georgiana listened to him and chose to be his ideal wife.