Part one of term paper
In “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Georgiana’s futile attempt to be flawless by cooperating in her own murder doesn’t make her any wiser, especially because such a sacrifice does not earn her closeness with her husband. The character of Georgiana epitomizes the virtues upheld by the conventions of her time; sh ...

Part two of term paper
... birthmark, as “a charm,” and Aylmer knows not “whether to term [the birthmark] a defect or a beauty . . .” (Hawthorne 11). Most persons of her own sex refers it as “the bloody hand,” that “Quite destroy(s) the effect of Georgiana’s beauty . . .” (Hawthorne 11). While her admirers “were won’t to say that some fairy at her birth-hour had laid her tiny hand upon the infant’s cheek, and left this impress [the birthmark] there in ...