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Summary Of The Hawthorne's Birthmark

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Through Hawthorn’s story the main emphasis is the birthmark located on Georgiana’s face. This birthmark is something that Aylmer wants to get ride of, he takes it upon himself to fix his wife. Rosenberg states, that Aylmer’s lifelong search through science is that he will finally have control over nature that he will be able to preform an experiment perfectly. Aylmer was so convinced he was better than nature he even thought that preforming these experiments would become not of nature. “In trying to cure her of her human nature, he killed her” (Rosenberg, 2). Aylmer through the story reminds Georgiana how flawed she is with this birthmark that she herself believes she is no longer beautiful, and in so allows her husband to preform the experiments
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