Response to lecture on Idealism

Idealism was something that when brought up in class i felt i had a decent understanding of and it was a pretty self explanatory topic that wasn't hard to grasp. Everyone want's to be in an "ideal" spot of there life and there's always something better to be achieved. Being too idealistic could be a negative trait as we saw in "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main character couldn't bare to see his wife less than perfect so he nonstop attempted to remove her birthmark which was her only flaw. By being so Idealistic he eventually killed his wife. I learned that there is much more to the theme of idealism then i had originally thought and it was very interesting for me and the rest of my class to deeper understand this concept completely.