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Noble Love in The Birthmark 


    Often billed as a story of an unsuccessful attempt to beat Nature at her own game, ?The Birthmark? by Nathaniel Hawthorne certainly lends itself to a somewhat deeper interpretation.  Over the years many scholars have noted that the story of Aylmer and Georgiana is riddled with traditional Hawthorne themes such as the evils of selfishness and pride, coupled with an element of solitariness (Arvin xvi).  However, we are want to consider whether Aylmer?s motives in this story are purely selfish.  Does this man perhaps deserve a touch of human sympathy?  

With blazingly obvious symbolism, clearly defined by the author himself, the reader can choose to take the tale for what it seems to be, a purely selfish experiment gone awry.  Yet, it seems as though Hawthorne was sympathetic to his man of science, leaving open for discussion the idea that love did exist in this sordid world of tiny hands and test tubes.  Although it is at times ambiguous, the tone of the story seems to point to just this idea.  Of it Richard Fogle writes:

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