Birthmark

I think a major theme of the story is we have to look beyond the imperfections of the ones we love. The only thing physically wrong with Georgina was the birthmark but Aylmer became obssessed with getting rid of it.In the end she says he got rid fo the best thing on earth. Maybe she was the best thing he ever had. She loved him so much she was willing to do anything to get rid of the birthmark he hated so much. She was willing to take some potion that could kill her in order to please him. If that's not love I don't know what is. Nothing was good enough for Aylmer.If he would have loved her he woulda looked past a silly imperfection. I don't know if he truely loved her or saw her as science experiment. At the beginning, it said something about how it was unclear if he loved Georgina more than science. If he loved science more maybe him doing that experiment on her was like him showing his love for science. That was the first angle I took on this story. The other was maybe she cheated on him or something. He kept saying the the birthmark was not superficial and that it had a hold on her heart. Maybe she cheated on him and the birthmark is like an ugly reminder day in and day out what she did to him. Kind of like the scarlet letter. Maybe that's why she was so willing to drink the potion. She wanted to fix things with him. She wanted him to forgive her so much that she would do anything.