“‘Georgiana,’ said he, ‘has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?’” (Hawthorne 1). In the short story, “The Birthmark”, Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a man, Aylmer, who is obsessed with making his wife, Georgiana, perfect. This obsession inevitably leads to Georgiana’s death. Aylmer’s obsession and Georgiana’s willingness to feed this obsession are tantamount to the tragedy of this short story. When reading the “The Birthmark”, a myriad of tragic flaws can be found in both Aylmer and Georgiana. In the article “Tragedy”, Leonard W. Conversi and Richard C. Sewall from Britannica write, “‘Why must humans suffer… Are its causes internal, and does one bring suffering upon oneself through arrogance, infatuation,