Intertextuality In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark'

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne quoted, “She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.”( BrainyQuote.) Similarly enough, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story The Birthmark is about an obliging and alluring wife, Georgiana who loses herself to change for her narcissistic, controlling, and unsuccessful husband named Alymer. While, Radiohead’s song Creep is about being in love with someone, but not feeling worthy enough. (Yorke) Luckily, between Hawthorne’s The Birthmark and Radiohead’s song Creep we see story situations versus real situations, idolization, dignity, and psychological abuse. Without, the substantial psychological abuse, situations, and feelings the author and writer drew to formulate their form of literature, we wouldn’t have the intertextuality between The Birthmark and Creep. …show more content…
(Standford University, Joel Pfister 1991) In Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, Aylmer is represented as a psychological target of a male monomaniac in the marriage. “Ah, wait for this this one success”, “then worship me”(351). As previously stated, Alymer is obsessed with Georgiana’s conflict, as a mechanism of avoid dealing with whatever he is dealing with internally. Similarly, in Radiohead’s Creep the audience perceives a viewpoint of a dominating relationship. “I want to have control/I want you to notice/when I’m not around/.( A-ZLyrics) We see the dominant similarities of having to have control and be remembered for his or her successes. Also the patriarchy gender