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Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Birthmark

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Sometimes, man is too eager to repair natural imperfections that may exist using science, rather than seeing these imperfections as beautiful natural occurrences, which will eventually lead to the destruction of nature. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” it appears that Aylmer the main character wants to show the world that perfection is not beauty, and he demonstrates this with his wife Georgiana and that science should not alter the way that nature set man on this world to be. Hawthorne was a major asset to the transcendental movement, and this short story is a perfect example why. Nathaniel Hawthorne attempts to show the world the comparison between perfection and beauty mainly by: a psychoanalytic version of the plot and Sigmund Freud’s three fundamentals.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” the main character, Aylmer, wants to have a perfect wife. His wife, Georgiana, is a very beautiful woman with just one flaw, the birthmark on her face. As a scientist, Aylmer tries to create a solution that will get rid of Georgiana’s birthmark, thus making her perfect. According to Hawthorne, however, this is not possible.
During the transcendental phase of American life, which involved literature from Hawthorne, transcendental writers would support Nature and its importance. In “The Birthmark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne tries to show the people that nature does not make anything flawless, and that this is the beauty of it. "Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffably

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