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... Nathaniel Hawthornes, The Birthmark is a story of symbolism and destructive irony. ... This same suppression of reality can be seen in Edgar Allen Poe’s, The House of Usher. Poe describes a sense of terror, which also results in madness and death, illustrates a principle of human nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of his era’s fascination with scientific methods, not to learn more about the world and to improve it, but rather to play God. ... Hawthorne says, "Georgiana’s lovers were wont to say that some fairy at her birth hour had laid her tiny hand upon the infant’s cheek, and left this impress there in token of the magic endowments that were to give her such sway over all hearts. ... Hawthorne explains, "It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain.
Approximate Word count = 687
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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