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    The Birthmark analysis Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem‚ Massachusetts in the year of 1804 and lived a long life until 1864. He studied at Bowdoin College. Throughout his lifetime Nathanial wrote many novels‚ short stories‚ etc. Some of his most famous ones being The Scarlet Letter (1850)‚ The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and the short story “The Birthmark.” “The Birthmark” is a story that has many different themes through the plot that revolve over one flaw. That being the Birthmark

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    The Birthmark shows allegory meaning the characters are symbols that represent something. For an example‚ Alymer is what a dependent mind might be and the dangers of scientists. He believes that the world is flawless; that everything is perfect. His obsession with perfection got worse when he married Georgina. The small birthmark on her cheek made Alymer so desperate to remove it. He thinks about it a lot‚ “With the morning twilight Aylmer opened his eyes upon his wife’s face and recognized the symbol

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    has become a classic archetype. The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ follows this archetype. Although The Birthmark and Frankenstein are not identical both stories have similar archetypal characters and share similar themes of abused power and redemption. The Frankenstein archetype requires three types of characters: a obsessive‚ mad scientist‚ a pure kind feminine presents and a monster‚ both sympathetic and ruthless. Although the characters from the birthmark are not carbon copies of the characters

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    could offer. Aylmer‚ dearest Aylmer‚ I am dying!’” p.9 10. (R) When Aylmer gives her the drink‚ she drinks the potion and the mark fades‚ but she starts to fade with it too. The readers are left with the blunt reality that Aylmer rather removes the birthmark that could he wife’s death rather than obsessing over her beauty that other would love her to be their wife. Also the immorality of perfection leads to

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    Blind Pursuits Jules Zanger in her essay‚ speaking of the Unspeakable: Hawthorne’s "The Birthmark‚" talks about the different interpretations of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark.” one of the interpretations she talks about “regards the mark on Georgiana Aylmer’s cheek as the external sign of her human [and] imperfect condition.”(Zanger‚ 364) She goes on to talk about Georgiana’s husband Aylmer who tried to remove the mark on her face because it kept her from being perfect

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    the story of a scientist who is obsessed with the removal of his wife ’s birthmark‚ considering it a symbol of her human imperfection. "The Birth-mark" is possibly influenced by Hawthorne ’s times where science began to gain knowledge about our world and was considerably glorified‚ through scientific experiment‚ humankind can discover‚ know‚ and do just about anything. As the narrator explains‚ “In those days when

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    Georgiana grew up with a birthmark on her cheek that was in the shape of a hand and was red‚ “When she blushed it gradually became more indistinct‚ and finally vanished.” (Hawthorne 2). She was very beautiful and was told all throughout her life that her birthmark was a good sign and could bring her luck. However‚ her husband Aylmer‚ who really did love her and her beauty‚ disliked her birthmark and believed its meaning was the opposite of luck and beauty. He thought it symbolized her being imperfect

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    Mark In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” he focuses on two main characters‚ Georgiana‚ a beautiful woman with a “crimson… mark… on her left cheek [in the shape of a] human hand” (Hawthorne 6)‚ and Georgiana’s husband‚ Aylmer‚ which is very obsessed with Georgiana’s birthmark. Hawthorne focuses on these two characters due to the great significance they both have with the mark on Georgiana’s face. In the novel‚ Aylmer wants to remove Georgiana’s birthmark because he believes that the mark ruins

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    to takes it off at all even when his friend kindly beg him to remove it. This show that thr reverend starts to wear the black veil over his face continually. With the reverend acting differently and nows he is wearing and refusing to take off his veil. But suddenly all of the citizens started to avoid him and try not have any interaction with him. Nextly the minister black veil shows more of isolation than guilt .

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