The Birthmark: Moral Criticism

Moral Criticism is considered to be the good and bad of what someone does. The values and ethics of how someone acts towards a certain subject. Moral criticism is used to determine the consequences or actions of something and how people feel towards the effect. A person's morals is the deciding factor whether their behavior is good or bad, in their own opinion. How they feel after something is done, requires morals. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” Moral Criticism is often used as a literary analysis. This reading follows in this theory due to the lesson learned at the end. The husband, because of desire and lack of scientific intelligence dreadfully kills his wife. The wife only wanted to please her husband by removing