Critical Analysis Of Women Beware Science The Birth-Mark

1. Fetterley,Judith. "Women Beware Science: The Birth-Mark." Frank, Ed. Albert J. von. Critical Essays on Hawthorne 's Short Stories. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1991. 164-173. Judith Fetterley argues that feminism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birth-Mark has an adverse effect on the women who are subjected to the male scrutiny. The article explains the stresses which the women encounter in their identity - which is the impression of the men’s response towards them and it highly varied. The article further demonstrates the consequences of which the women are confined in the man’s mind thinking, where they are objects of being examined, scrutinized, and experimentally analyzed. The author further comments that the story was written to be a feminist

This factor is taken as unifying and deliberately point blank in the central symbolism. The article analyzes the use of key themes of unity and separation from the beginning with the writer speaking of affinities. Images smoothen the frame and characters, such as Georgiana are the main representation. Mortality and pure strain mediates within the extremes. The writer draws the analogy between the world chemistry and personalities of human

The writer further argues that Hawthorne’s story was concerned of morals outlining ethical implications of several characters who have diverse ideas. The issue of potential actions characterized either both external and internal drawbacks has deeply being concerned with the often buried factors, which make people to interact with the moral nature and face its consequences. The article also analyzes the men’s spontaneous fear of the difference in bodies with the women. The story is seen as undergone challenges to extend of lovely women with men, like Aylmer being obsessed by the wife’s obsession.

8. Male, Roy R. "Hawthorne and the Concept of Sympathy." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. (1953): 138-149. The author supports Hawthorne’s story by showing that it was geared towards the right and supplemented the older ones by the use of a distorted picture of Puritan anachronism - which was solitary living. The connection of fundamental issues of the immediate predecessors who cannot contemporary be evaluated in the relevance of influential passages. The approach of climate of opinion is taken as rewarding in the connection of Hawthorne’s work.

9. Goldenberg, Jamie L., and Tomi-Ann Roberts. "The Birth-Mark: An existential account of the objectification of women."