The BirthMark

In “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgiana's futile try to be flawless by cooperating in her own killing doesn't make her any wiser, particularly because such a forfeit does not profit from her closeness with her husband. The feature of Georgiana epitomizes the virtues supported by the conferences of her time; she is attractive, docile and has no aspirations of her own other than to make her married man happy. In supplement to this clear-cut flawless amalgamation is a "singular assess, profoundly interwoven, as it were, with the texture and matter of her face" (Hawthorne 11). The birthmark is distinctly ...