Owning Perfection: The Struggle between Science and Nature in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Birthmark.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The begining of the story
- Aylmer: The thesis of the story
- Hawthorne's description of the way Aylmer sees science
- Conclusion
- Works consulted
Abstract
In many love poems written to praise the beauty or virtue of a woman, the woman or the woman's love is often seen as a material possession or a thing to be owned. In nathaniel hawthorne's "the birthmark," the woman is seen as something to be improved upon and perfected. Love is not only something to be possessed; it is something to be invested in, like any other expensive material thing. hawthorne's story is not only about love within a materially driven culture, it is about dominance and dependence. It is also about the struggle between nature and science, the obsessions produced by this struggle, and how the struggle resolves.
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