Birthmark .. god will always remain supreme

“He has proposed to take her portrait by a scientific process of his own invention” (Hawthorne 1026). In this quotation, Aylmer views his wife as a scientific experiment which he has the right to tamper with. Aylmer’s idea of changing his wife can be compared to God’s right of creation. Aylmer strives to be like God, but cannot escape from his mortal qualities which prevent him from being equal to God. Aylmer, an extremely proficient scientist has been able to equalize God’s power in numerous ways, but as a result of his vices as a human may not be labeled as the equal of God.
Aylmer, extremely fixated by science, in some ways matches God’s power. Aylmer has a beautiful wife who has only one imperfection - a birthmark. Instead of loving Georgiana for her natural beauty, Aylmer thought of her birthmark as a “frightful object, causing him more trouble and horror than ever Georgiana’s beauty . . . had given him delight” (Hawthorne 1022). Aylmer thinks that ...