Accepting Ounce's Appearance In The Birthmark By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Accepting Ounce’s Appearance
One of the major problems in regard to the issue of human enhancement has increased greatly in recent years with advancements, developments in science, which has caused men to realize how unattractive they are and in what ways are they willing to correct the flaws of nature, which is often viewed as being a modern issue. In Hawthorne’s story, The Birthmark, these ideals are proved wrong. In year 1843, Hawthorne discovered that one of the great issues in society was engraved in a man's determination to turn imperfection to perfection by any means necessary. Through a literary theorist lens, literature can be used to explain and show how unhappy men are themselves and the people around them, which often causes the
Hawthorne uses literature and art to establish his novel about Aylmer and Georgiana. The birthmark deals the character of Aylmer a great scientist who is totally committed to his work. His whole life has been based on figuring out the way nature works and finding out who to perfect it. However, ends up marring Georgiana, a beautiful woman who appears to be every man’s dream wife. In addition, after the married Aylmer discovers a small red birthmark on her cheek with the shape of a baby’s hand. Men who approach her believed it to be perfect and thought that it even made her more attractive. Georgina herself had always been in love with her birthmark, it wasn’t until her husband pointed it out that he did not like it and thinks he removing it will make her flawless. Georgina feels disappointed when her husband believes that makes her unique is ugly, she began to identify herself as ugly. These causes both partners to draw far part from each other and a higher increasingly level of unhappiness in their marriage. Aylmer sees the birthmark as a symbol of imperfection and his determine to perfect it. As a woman who loves her husband, she agrees and allowed him to get rid of the imperfection that he sees in her
Art is meant to show the beauty in things and the happiness people feel and carry around with them. The usage of art creates a sense of enthusiasm towards prettiness and the emolument of hope, which is an achievement that waits to aid people when it’s needed most in their h lives. One thing art does is it help human deals with the issues of pain and builds it emotion around it. The use of art always provides humans with the assurance to be either sad or happy. In addition, it reminds us of what we have that reminds us of something special in life. It also use of art to reminds and compensate us or what we have we lacked in lives. According to James Stanley, “Art is an interpreter, not a transcriber: a suggester, not a realister. Art does not, or should not; attempt to rival nature, to equal nature, even its aim should be to stamp the mind of one who has looked at nature sympathetically upon canvas. Art is a way that expresses himself is just such as to make us feel that he only ranks music amongst the fine arts because in the present day he must do so, but that as a powerful agent in the intellectual advancement of the masses, in his heart, he places it far beneath painting, sculpture, or poetry. Art “has become well-known in this country through an English translation" (Stanley, page 1). Moreover, in Hawthorne’s the birthmark he does a