In both "The Raven" by Poe and "The Birthmark" by Hawthorne we see representations of the supernatural. In "The Birthmark", Georgiana's husband thinks of his wife as nearly perfect except for her birthmark "No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature, that this slighest possible defect-which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty-shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection". (645) He convinces his wife to allow him to remove the birth mark As time goes by Georgiana beings to hate her birthmark just as much as her husband does. She agrees to allow him to remove the birthmark but in doing so he kills his wife. The birth mark was something that was given to her by nature and was considered
