The Theme Of Nature's Criticism In The Birthmark By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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?I have already administered agents powerful enough to do aught except to change your entire physical system. Only one thing remains to be tried. If that fail us we are ruined." (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Out of Nathaniel Hawthorne?s short story ?The Birthmark?, this quote shows the uninterrupted quest to eliminate nature 's flaws through unproven scientific methods, and by doing so, disrupting nature?s divine progression. Hawthorne articulates a story of an eminent chemical scientist, Aylmer, and a wife of great beautify, Georgian, who has a red crimson ?hand-like? stain on her cheek. Shortly after married, Aylmer is alarmed by Georgian?s imperfection then become obsessed to rid Georgian of it. Throughout ?The birthmark?, Hawthorne illustrates man?s lethal devotion to science, although he is temporarily distracted by love; a heroine devoted to her husband; and the ultimate fate the both of them will surrender to. ?It remains clearly a newlywed 's story, fresh with the author 's anxieties, hopes, and fears. This …show more content…

that leaves the successes of his laboratory to find the perfect wife. His pursuit finds her and blindly he does not take notice any of nature?s flaws that Georgiana has. However, Aylmer ideology of perfection consumes him once he discovers the birthmark. All of his attention is on this small mark that is unchanged when there is a shift in her emotions. His next question gives foresight into the depths of Aylmer?s pursuit to rid this small imperfection. Aylmer asks Georgian, his wife, "has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?" He continues to say the mark makes her imperfect: ?No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly

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