English 1022E Lecture 4: The Birthmark Part 2
9 Mar 2016
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Paranoia obssessed with the desire to know. She may have absorbed and internalized his own desires. He says her spirit (inside) is already perfect, and her outer body shall soon too be perfect. Paranoia is a general condition of being, it is not an exception. Not an exceptional state of illness; we are all paranoid. The brutal difficulty is learning to recognize what is truly meaningful. Every piece of art is questionable because it is able to sustain questions. Unless you choose to make it meaningful. He *does* succeed, the birthmark is gone, but it only happens in killing her. Paranoia is the dark side of cognition . Not separate from the way we are. He is troubled by her emotions (blushing) It is a sign of her connection to the earth. Aylmer values the spiritual over the earthly. His goal is to translate her into something more spiritual.
