French

Sometimes we dream of being perfect people who have perfect beauty. We were born to pursue perfect beauty. In other words, the pursuit of beauty is one of the instincts of human beings. Through history it has been frequently used as the subject matter of literary works that reflect instincts and desires of human kind. In three literary works, ¡°The Birthmark¡± by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ¡°Recipe¡± by Janice Mirikitani, and ¡°Love Poem¡± by John Frederick Nims, we can find the theme of the pursuit of beauty and perfection.
The first work that I chose, ¡°The Birthmark¡±, embodies most clearly the instinctive pursuit of perfect beauty of the three works. This fiction shows how a man can become obsessive to the desire to achieve perfect beauty and what the result is. Stated earlier, the desired to be perfect without a single flaw is one of basic hopes of mortal human beings regardless of when or where they live. Therefore, we can say the main subject of this ficti...