The Birth-Mark

remove her mark. This potion eventually leads to her death. Hawthorne show the power of nature when Aylmer is feeling down and none of his potions will cheer him up. No potion can fix how he is feeling. The only thing that makes him smile is the sound of his wife Georgiana singing to him. “She poured out the liquid music of her…

Another character experiences the complete loss of her worth as an individual as a result of another character's egotistical desires. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark", a scientist named Aylmer has a self-absorbed desire to prove he possesses godlike abilities. He attacks his wife's self-esteem to break her spirit, and make her complicit in his mad scheme to remove her birthmark. At first, Georgiana is simply confused, when her husband implies that her birthmark detracts from her beauty.…

“The Birthmark” In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, “The Birthmark”, Aylmer is a crazy scientist who gave up everything to marry who was to him, the most perfect woman he has ever known which name is Georgiana. As we know, nothing is perfect in life, neither Georgiana was. From Aylmer views, Georgiana was so perfect morally and spiritually. However, Aylmer was unhappy with a little imperfection on Georgiana’s face, which makes him obsessed by such powers that he wanted to experiment on his wife…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark," Hawthorne focuses on science vs nature, symbolism, and overall failure. Aylmer seems to believe science can achieve anything, and his craving to make his wife perfect is doomed from the start because only divine beings can achieve perfection. Aylmer is a brilliant but foolish scientist who decides to use science to make his beautiful wife perfect. Aylmer has accomplished many things that he seems to be proud of and willing to show off to Georgiana.…

defect or a beauty” (Hawthorne). Georgiana’s husband, Aylmer, believes if he removes this “hand” birthmark, his wife would then be perfect in every way. Adoring her husband and also getting used to the idea of the birthmark making her a “visible mark of earthly imperfection" as well, Georgiana goes along with Aylmer’s obsession and allows him to remove the birthmark from her cheek. Aylmer tries several experiments on his wife, and soon Georgiana was obsessing over the removal as well,…

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…

A story that I’ve read by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark has had an impact on me throughout the semester. The reason I choose this piece of work by Hawthorne, because after reading the story and understanding what was going on, it had some flaws that I personally can relate too, but don’t like it all. I feel that judging someone that you like isn’t right at all from whatever the problem is. Just a brief overview of The Birthmark, Aylmer has a huge issue with his newly wife birthmark on her…

“The Birthmark” shows how this earthly world does not fulfill you. As The Bible says, “[b]ut I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” (Bible Galatians 5:16). Aylmer and Georgiana perfectly display this. Aylmer searches for fulfillment in Georgiana’s appearance and Georgiana looks for it in the way Aylmer is attracted to her. Hawthorne clearly shows this in the way that his characters crave perfection that ultimately destroy them. Aylmer’s craving over…

hand-shaped birthmark on his wife’s right cheek that previously did not bother him. As time goes on, the birthmark occupies Aylmer’s thoughts increasingly and begins to damage Georgiana’s beauty in his eyes. Georgiana’s birthmark transforms from a mark that Aylmer “contented…with washing away” to something that he chose to be the “symbol of his wife’s liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death” (1022). The growing distress of Aylmer’s feelings and Georgiana’s anxieties towards the birthmark…

There were many scientists in the past and many were successful and many were not. These scientists can be either portrayed positively and negatively in many ways. Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of “The Birthmark”, Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment”, and “Rappaccini's Daughter”, portrays scientists negatively in these stories. Each of these allegories show how corrupt, inhumane, and manipulative scientist could be. In “The Birthmark”, Aylmer, a scientist married to Georgina, puts his love for…