Post by sharonyik on Dec 5, 2008 17:39:36 GMT -8
"The Birthmark" DCQ
Passage from "The Birthmark" :
"Had she been less beautiful,--if Envy's self could have found aught else to sneer at,--he might have felt his affection heightened by the prettiness of this mimic hand...but seeing her otherwise so perfect, he found this one defect grow more and more intolerable with every moment of their united lives. It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain".
Flaws are perceived in greater proportions in those who are seemingly perfect before society in comparison to those who pass off as merely average. Defend, challenge, or qualify this assertion using examples and quotes from the story, other literature, history, or local events.
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Passage from "The Birthmark" :
"Had she been less beautiful,--if Envy's self could have found aught else to sneer at,--he might have felt his affection heightened by the prettiness of this mimic hand...but seeing her otherwise so perfect, he found this one defect grow more and more intolerable with every moment of their united lives. It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain".
Flaws are perceived in greater proportions in those who are seemingly perfect before society in comparison to those who pass off as merely average. Defend, challenge, or qualify this assertion using examples and quotes from the story, other literature, history, or local events.
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