The Birth-markNathaniel Hawthorne

Plot• The story begins showing us a description

of Aylmer.

• Aylmer leave his laboratory into the care of Aminadab.

• Aylmer married Georgiana

• Aylmer wants to takes off Georgina´s birthmark.

• He gets the poison he needed to remove her wife´s mark.

• Georgiana drink a colorless liquid.

• Finally she dies.

Aspects Neoclassicism:

• Beauty• Perfection • Order• Geometry• Symmetry

Aspects Excess

• Loss of identity• Ambition• Obssesion

Aspects Science vs. Human Nature

Message

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”-Michael J. Fox

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