Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” portrays this foolishly driven desire in creating a flawless being by illustrating the battle between a man’s love for science verses his love for women. Hawthorne’s choice of language conveys the barriers that lie between morality and sin that are recognized by challenging nature and scientific triumph. Early in the short story, Georgiana and her birthmark are introduced as “a single mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and substance of her face” (Hawthorne 291). The word interwoven characterizes not only is Georgiana’s birthmark something physical but it also goes deeper into her soul, creating this imperfectly defined human being. The narrator also describes the birthmark
