Nathaniel Hawthorne And The Birthmark

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a Gothic writer who wrote short stories like “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, “The Artist of the Beautiful”, and “The Birthmark”. Hawthorne's writings often reflected romantics’ beliefs in nature and contained his message about science and man’s quest for perfection. An example where these ideas are shown, are in Hawthorne's short story “The Birthmark”. In this story, a scientist named Aylmer grows tired of his beautiful wife’s birthmark and asks her if she would remove it. Although his wife stated that she does not mind the birthmark, Aylmer obsessively detest it to a point, where he cannot even look at her. Aymer describes the birthmark as “the fatal flaw of humanity, which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably