{"id":8378,"date":"2020-01-11T09:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T09:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2020-01-13T04:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T04:58:48","slug":"the-birthmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/the-birthmark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birthmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cIf she were my wife, I\u2019d never part with that birthmark.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About The Author<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist who wrote a darkly romantic and short story. He is one of the famous fiction writers in the American language. Some of his best works are The Scarlet Letter, Twice-Told Tales, and The House of the Seven Gables. People criticized him for the depiction of women in his works. However, Some authors praised Hawthorne for his moral insight. His literary styles are remarkable for its directness, its clarity, its firmness, and its sureness of idioms. He was concerned with the concepts of law and conscience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>About The Novel<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main character of this story, Aylmer, is a scientist who is proficient in every branch of natural philosophy. He marries a beautiful young lady, Georgiana, who had the birthmark on her cheek in the shape of a crimson hand. She believed that it spoils her beauty, but most men find it charming. However, Aylmer gets obsessed with her birthmark as the only flaw. So he tries to remove it. Most of the Alymer\u2019s experiments were magnificent failures, though he experimented on his wife to remove the birthmark. Somehow he got succeeded, and the birthmark blemished. But Georgiana died, as the birthmark is mortality itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Genre: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Novel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tone: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disgusted<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Type: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horror<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Year of publication: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1843<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Significant Characters<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><b>\u00a0Aylme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">r: He is a brilliant scientist, selfish, cruel, and protagonist of the story. He is famous in the scientific community. He created a potent poison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0Georgiana: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is Aylmer\u2019s wife. She is a beautiful woman with a birthmark, which is her only blemish. Georgiana fulfills his husband\u2019s unreasonable demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aminadab: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is disapproving, Aylmer\u2019s helper yet. Aminadab feels compassion for Georgiana more than his husband. He is disgusted by Aylmer\u2019s desire to erase Georgiana\u2019s birthmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Themes\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science- The story of The Birthmark revolves around the scientific experiments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature- The author tries to explain that natural beauty is the real beauty<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perfection- Georgiana was perfect in every way except the birthmark<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fatal Pride- Alymer\u2019s disastrous pride results in the death of his wife<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submission- Georgiana unquestionably obeys her husband\u2019s every wish<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacrifice- She suggests her husband remove the birthmark since it bothers him a lot<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mortality- The birthmark in itself stands for mortality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Famous Quotes from The Birthmark\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You cannot love what shocks you!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there be the remotest possibility of it, let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If she were my wife, I&#8217;d never part with that birthmark.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf she were my wife, I\u2019d never part with that birthmark.\u201d\u00a0 About The Author\u00a0 Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist who wrote a darkly romantic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Birthmark | Nathaniel Hawthorne\u00a0<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Birthmark is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 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