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This 5 page paper discusses Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" and "Rappaccini's Daughter". This paper explores how both of these stories treat women as mere objects and how the men in these stories control and coerce these women. Bibliography lists 0 sources.
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to men. In The Birthmark and Rappaccinis Daughter, Hawthorne shows the destructiveness of trying to seek perfection and the havoc it creates in the lives of women who are
supposedly near and dear to the men of these stories. These stories elicit a great deal of intrigue because of their ability to show so vividly the repercussions of
one person acting as God in the life of another. How Men Treat Women According To Hawthorne The Birthmark is
a story in which a very clever (read - egotistical) scientist is forever irritated by the birthmark on his wifes face. As a man of science, he believes he
should be able to "fix" it, which alone should ring alarms and warn readers that clearly this is a man who sees imperfection. He obviously doesnt just see the
birthmark on his wifes face as a beautiful part of her, but instead he finds fault with he. He wants it gone. He believes it is his duty
to eradicate it. And yet, in truth that is merely his interpretation of it. Why couldnt that be understood by Alymer
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is a part of who she is. To
be repulsed by it is like looking at the beauty of nature but condemning it anyway because there is no perfect symmetry or no perfection in any aspect.
Alymer sought perfection, and was unable to see Georgiana in any other way. He was unable to see her physical beauty
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