...Would you take the chance to become perfect if it meant it may cost you your life? “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores this concept and the divide between science and nature. The main character of “The Birthmark” has a perfect wife but can only focus on her one flaw, a small and handshaped scar on her cheek. In an attemp to remove it and thereby make her perfect, he ends up killing her. This concept displays the Romantic notion that it is dangerous to believe that science can perfect nature. This warning is still valid today with recent technilogical advances and ideals on perfection. Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” is still realivant because of different ways of trying to perfect ourselves and change world around us. To begin, “The...
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