improvement (“Perfection”). The ideal of perfection is quite impossible due to the fact that there is always a way to further improve, therefore perfection is only an impractical fantasy, not a sensible objective to work towards. However, in “The Birth-Mark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorn a man becomes obsessed with the thought of perfection and attempts to change nature for that very intention. Georgiana, a beautiful, young woman married to a scientist by the name of Alymer, has become a living, breathing…
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