Comparing Sin In The Birthmark, Rappaccini's Daughter, And

All of mankind commits sin, even when they do not mean to. Nathaniel Hawthorne's works usually includes since, women, or religion. The stories The Birthmark, Rappaccini’s Daughter, and Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Mr. Hawthorne all include science. In The Birthmark a man is obsessed with ridding his wife of her “horrible” facial birthmark and ends up killing her in the process of trying to remove it. Rappaccini’s Daughter tells a tale of a man falling in love with a poisonous girl, when he give her the antidote to the poison she's made up of she dies. The story of Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is about a scientist giving a group of old friends a second chance at life, and they waste it. In the stories at hand Hawthorne demonstrates how he uses

The main sins in these stories are killing, selfishness, and greed. At the ending of The Birthmark and Rappaccini's Daughter a beautiful woman loses her life,do to the actions of the men who “love” them most. In Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment a hypothetical death occurs, a death of dreams. Killing is commonly known as a sin, even though the scientists did not mean to kill these people of their dreams, the scientist did. The one big thing that lead to the deaths was selfishness. The scientists wanted to “help these people, but not truly. Aylmer wanted to rid Georgina of the birthmark because it was unappealing to him, she used to think it was what made her unique. Dr, Heidegger has no intentions of wanting to help the three old friends gain their lives back, he just wanted to see if he used the potion if he would change not only on the outside but on the inside as well. If the scientist didn’t have selfish intentions, more than likely the experiments could have been successful and lives would have been saved. Another sin shown in these three stories at hand is greed. If only Aylmer would have stopped when the birthmark has slightly faded he and Georgina could have had a great life together. Dr. Heidegger could have had seen that the trio of friends had not been changed after one drink, but instead he kept giving more and more which made the friends fight and destroy the potion along with their dreams. In Rappaccini’s daughter Givoni wanted more than to just admire Beatrice from a far. All the men wanted more and could not be content with what they already had. The sins of selfishness and greed lead up to the unintentional sin of killing. Even though these three stories are all the different, the sins are the