Flawed Beauty

Flawed Beauty
In the story, The Birth-mark, Nathaniel Hawthorne explains how beauty can be found in your flaws, and how it depends on the eye of the beholder. Aylmer, the scientist and husband, is married to a beautiful woman, named Georgiana. Upon Georgiana’s cheek is a birthmark with a shape that “bore not a little similarity to the human hand, though of the smallest pigmy size”.
Aylmer found the hand to be, “the visible mark of earthly imperfection”, while others “would have risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand”. Knowing this, the reader can reali...