Poem Analysis: The Birthmark

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Death rates for both the young and old are dropping rapidly as technology becomes more advanced. We are the monsters of our own making in regards to technology because people are living longer than ever. As Earth becomes more full with people the resources to take care of all these people may become scarce. Mankind is obsessed with perfection and will stop at nothing to achieve it.
Mans nature is to create perfection and create a perfect world. People invent things and medicine to fix people and make life better everyday, but when will it end? In The Birthmark Aylmer is obsessed with getting rid of his wife's’ birthmark. He believes that his technology can create total perfection and he will stop at nothing to achieve that. “With her whole spirit she prayed that, for a single moment, she might satisfy his highest and deepest conception. Longer than one moment she well knew it could not be; for his spirit was ever on the march, ever ascending, and each instant required something that was beyond the scope of the instant before.” This quote from the story is expressing how people will never achieve perfection because they will always want more. Aylmer would rather not have a wife than live with an …show more content…
We try so hard to prolong life and sometimes we sacrifice quality of living for quantity of living. In the short story Fortitude Dr.Frankenstein stops at nothing to keep his love Sylvia alive. Sylvia is nothing but a head kept alive by machines, even her emotions are controlled by a machine. “I asked him yesterday what would happen if my brain started to go. He was serene. He said I wasn't to worry my pretty little head about that. “we'll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he told me. Oh, the bridges I’ve crossed!”. This quote from Sylvia explains how even after her brain goes he will still try to keep her alive. She also says how she has been threw so much to stay
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