The subject of femininity is the overwhelming rationale in Hawthorne's works, which offers rich pictures of women; their evolving lives, dissatisfactions and dreams. Hawthorne never viewed women as insignificant or as debilitating Eves but instead as men's key, passionate, scholarly, also, otherworldly accomplices, friends not dangers. In his short stories and sentiments, Hawthorne creates an extensive variety of female characters, a few are free disapproved, self-assured; others epitomize the sexual orientation desires of ladies in Hawthorne's day, powerless and reliant on men. For this paper I will be focusing on two of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most complex short stories, Rappaccini’s Daughter and The Birth Mark. Both stories highlight men’s