The Birthmark: the dangers of science

Georgiana was a devoted faithful wife that lived to please her husband. When she learned that the mention of her birthmark troubled her husband it began to distress her as well. “At the mention of the birthmark, Georgiana, as usual, shrank as if a red hot iron had touched her cheek.”(p.125). She was so devoted to her husbands happiness above her own that she preferred to die then to annoy h

However it was the birthmark that made her human. All people are inherently flawed. Only God is perfect, Aylmer’s attempt to make Georgina perfect made her too perfect for this world. Hawthorne shows here that science cannot be used to change nature. When Dr. Heidegger gives his friends the water from the fountain of youth the effects were temporary. No one can cheat their nature, even though the water did not kill his friends the reader can assume it will not extend their lives.

defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a

"Ah, upon another face perhaps it might," replied her husband;

Hawthorne sets the story in two areas Georgiana’s boudoir and Aylmer’s laboratory. :“Aylmer had converted those smoky, dingy, somber rooms, where he had spent his brightest years in recondite pursuits, into a series of beautiful apartments…”(p123). Although he was using his wife’s flaw as an experiment, he still felt there was something impure about his laboratory. By converting the rooms he kept her disconnected from his work. The boudoir is very diffe

Some topics in this essay:
Georgiana Shortly, Dr Heidegger, Roger Chillingworth, Heidegger's Experiment, Birthmark Aylmer, nature birthmark, mention birthmark,