The Birthmark and The Eye of the Beholder both have characters that interpret a normal person as imperfect creatures or a kind of monster.
The Birthmark tells a story of a woman called Georgina, who has a birthmark, and her husband Alymer sees the birthmark that is unique and distinctive as a horrible and shameful characteristic. Similar, in The Eye of the Beholder, the woman is good looking, however the rest of the people were different; therefore, they defined her as a kind of a monster.
These women teach us that imperfections and differences make us humans. Janet and Georgina are both unique and people judged them. However Janet found people who accepted her for the way she was and Georgina was constantly judged which caused her death.
The people who have declared the women as monsters have a hard time to accept differences. In both stories they define normal as equality and standard. In The Birthmark, Alymar defined his wife Georgina as a monster because she had a brown mark on her skin. Since he didn’t have a birthmark and not everyone does, he couldn’t accept something different. In The Eye of the Beholder, the woman lived in a world where most people had a distorted face and she had a plain and clean face. In that world her kind of face structure was rare and they did not allowed her to live among them, because she was not ordinary like them. Both stories teach us that humans don’t know how to handle with people or anything that is uncommon. In The Birthmark and in The Eye of the Beholder contain characters who try to change the women and make fit in, instead of accepting them. The difference between both stories is that in The birthmark the end of the tale had a tragic death and in The Eye of the Beholder, Janet found a place where people accepted her.
Humans fear the unknown. Humans tend to like stability and don’t like change. We can’t define something that we haven’t experience yet, so humans are afraid they can’t control or understand someone different. Our response do not make us monster, it makes us humans.
The Birthmark tells a story of a woman called Georgina, who has a birthmark, and her husband Alymer sees the birthmark that is unique and distinctive as a horrible and shameful characteristic. Similar, in The Eye of the Beholder, the woman is good looking, however the rest of the people were different; therefore, they defined her as a kind of a monster.
These women teach us that imperfections and differences make us humans. Janet and Georgina are both unique and people judged them. However Janet found people who accepted her for the way she was and Georgina was constantly judged which caused her death.
The people who have declared the women as monsters have a hard time to accept differences. In both stories they define normal as equality and standard. In The Birthmark, Alymar defined his wife Georgina as a monster because she had a brown mark on her skin. Since he didn’t have a birthmark and not everyone does, he couldn’t accept something different. In The Eye of the Beholder, the woman lived in a world where most people had a distorted face and she had a plain and clean face. In that world her kind of face structure was rare and they did not allowed her to live among them, because she was not ordinary like them. Both stories teach us that humans don’t know how to handle with people or anything that is uncommon. In The Birthmark and in The Eye of the Beholder contain characters who try to change the women and make fit in, instead of accepting them. The difference between both stories is that in The birthmark the end of the tale had a tragic death and in The Eye of the Beholder, Janet found a place where people accepted her.
Humans fear the unknown. Humans tend to like stability and don’t like change. We can’t define something that we haven’t experience yet, so humans are afraid they can’t control or understand someone different. Our response do not make us monster, it makes us humans.