"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam. This quote by Gibran means that people choose their fates long before they become their realities. For example, Oedipus, in Oedipus Rex, had sincere intentions to avoid his fate of killing his father and lying with his mother. However, he chose his sorrow long before his dreaded fate came true. His selfish actions throughout his life caused his foretold …showed first 75 words of 1412 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1412 total…science over hers. Gandhi once said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world." I truly believe Aylmer had a chance to change his lifestyle through marrying Georgiana; I feel he married her to make a change for the better in his lifestyle. However, he quickly reverted back to his true nature after marrying Georgiana and chose his imminent sorrow of failure. All along, failure had been The Ailment in Aylmer.