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Professor Jacobs
English 132
15 November 2017
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The birthmark there is a beautiful young lady name Georgiana, who is
married to a scientist named Aylmer, her husband did love her dearly but he couldnt just see the
beautiful within all because of a birthmark shaped as a hand on his wifes cheek. The story is set
in the late 18 century during the time when women werent treated like prize possession they
were treated like property in a sense; they were expected to do anything to please their husbands.
Aylmer just wanted his wife to perfect even though she was to other men in the town
The process of reconstructing or repairing parts of the body, especially by the transfer of tissue
either in the treatment of injury or for cosmetic reasons. In creating beauty to cure the soul
doctors proposes that clinical definitions of unhappiness with the body developed out of theories
In the Birth mark Aylmer uses the potions to try to secure his wife birthmark that doesnt make
her so unperfected where he end ups being the reason that his wife ends up dead. In todays
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world plastic surgery can be a bad thing, So many things can go wrong such as doing to the
Gilman argues that a shift in the cultural understanding and representation of the popular plastic
surgery to offend the Jews .in the article Gilman explains how the surgery on people nose causes
others to be offended because they take pride in what they have, but in the birth mark Aylmer
loved his wife but he couldnt just do anything because she had that birthmark which came
naturally for her too. Others around town thought she was the perfect women and didnt see any
flaws in her.
The perfect person doesnt exist in a world that lack perfection between the two articles they
both have similarities where one person doesnt like how they were made to they get something
changed and it doesnt work out for the better for them. Hawthorne story was written way before
plastic surgery was popular to the world, people couldnt have a doctor perfect them. Aylmer
uses poisons that ended up being the reason of his wife death. Making the body Beautiful is a
more comprehensive study than creating beauty says Deborah Covino the author of A cultural
History of Aesthetic surgery. in the story The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne talks
about how he wants the perfect women .in todays world the perfect person does not exists in the
article Convino explains how the different types of approaches and types or plastic surgery that
people get to make their self-look as perfect as they can get in their eyes . All feminist activity,
including feminist theory literary criticism has its ultimate goal to change the world prompting
gender equality
21st century women were not subservient to their mans as women were back in the 18th century
.many feel the need to change the appearance to feed on to the mans ego. But changing the
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appearance could also have women end up dead or not quite what they thought they would look
like. But isnt the case for all women today, many feel that it is expected once they get a little
money they have to look like a Barbie doll or the a mans trophy wife.