The birthmark nathaniel hawthorne essay

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This can be compared to the current American generation which aims to make ideal beautiful women through plastic surgery and bleaching. Although there is vast scientific knowledge, currently nature has proven to be more powerful than science in almost all aspects. This is a type of love story, but without a happy ending, the author uses the characters of this story to show the audience the powers of nature and science. The story is about a married couple, Georgiana and Aylmer who have been living happily. Allover sudden Aylmer confronts his wife about a red birthmark on her left cheek. Aylmer was determined to make his wife perfect, and he managed to remove the birthmark off her face. She became perfect, but her perfection was not of this world; hence she could not be able to survive this world.

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As she was dying, she told Aylmer not to feel bad because he was not able to love the simple perfection the world could offer. Georgiana on the other hand also looks for perfection when she finally decides to make her husband happy so that they continue having a happy relationship. She desired to continue having a perfect marriage she had before her husband started obsessing over removing her birthmark. Although they may be able to acquire the beauty, it is associated with risks like death during surgeries, cancer, depression, and other chronic illnesses which limit the time to enjoy the new unnatural beauty. The author portrays a conflict between science and nature in the story. The world which the couple lived in had advanced almost fictional science proven by the experiments that Aylmer did in his laboratory (Gale, 2015).

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Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the audience that nature is powerful than science because nature is Godly made and Science is humanmade. Georgiana’s natural beauty was more powerful because at first, it attracted Aylmer making him marry her, and it also intoxicated other men who wished to kiss the birthmark. In a romantic point of view, nature has a symbolic meaning of morality and a caution that those who disrespect the immanent power end up learning powerful humility lessons. Aylmer was taught not to challenge the power of nature miserably (Zu-ying, 2008). To sum up, human beings are expected to learn from their past mistakes, but they never learn at times since they have never accepted that science cannot solve all their problems.

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