Topic Sentence 1: One of the most important symbols presented throughout Hawthorne’s short story is Aylmer’s wife, Georgiana’s, birthmark. The birthmark symbolizes multiple things such as humanity’s flaws, insecurities, and weaknesses, which ultimately ends with the the idea of human mortality. Georgiana is a beautiful woman who is desirable by many men, however her hand-shaped birthmark …show more content…
If someone, however, reaches perfection then they are no longer human, for one’s imperfection is what makes an individual human. If take what make them human the they are no longer humans. Hawthorne strongly employs this argument by symbolizing Georgiana’s birthmark for human mortality. In addition, through his argument he is able to reveal that humanity is flawed because they are mortal, science cannot replace God, and perfection ultimately comes with a