Human Imperfection Illustrated in Hawthorne's The Birthmark

It is hard to say that people are perfect. Human beings can not achieve perfection; if so, humans will no longer be humans. Essentially, humans are full of paralysis and some people appear in the uterus as early as possible. We can not deny human imperfections from physical defects, heart defects, mistakes in everyday life. Not only is it impossible to try to manipulate the perfection of a person but it deprives him of being a human being.

Lapachini's daughter and Ethan Blanc Hawthorne marked his character as a disciple of God who could have been ruined by human chaos and negotiating can not negotiate. In the face of examples of imperfections and divisions, the scientific idea of ​​"fresh born traces", "daughter of Lapaccini", and "Isson brand" is to pursue impossible ideals of complete encapsulation and order , Trying to eliminate or fuse defects. With dissatisfaction with writing poetry, they tried to write a script for the entire Bible. These three stories are to some extent a revised version of Eden's story.

At Nathaniel Hawthorne of Aylmer, The Birthmark who is doing his utmost to his science, he married a beautiful young woman, Georgiana, with a "secular imperfection". This imperfection resembles a small "dark red hand" that is clearly visible on the left side of Georgiana. The birthmark itself is both a collapse of science and technology into society and a symbol of Georgiana's death. Birthmark became the subject of Elmer's obsession, he decided to use all his scientific knowledge to correct 'imperfections nature left in her most fair work'. Hawthorne believes that pursuit of this perfection is a scientific feature through The Birthmark, but the death of Georgiana and his birth are the power to dominate and change nature as a result of the science requiring excessive force Warn of

After Elimer tried to test her, the death of Georgiana shows this: "This is the last crimson color as the only sign of human imperfection - disappearing from her cheeks, now a perfect lady My departure breath is transmitted to the atmosphere ... ". The implicit moral point is that attempting to contradict the original intent is immoral and leads to disastrous consequences. Hawthorne uses Elmer 's role to explain the abuse of science as a means of controlling nature. In contemporary science, "dominance of nature" became the essence of the medical field, and entered the extreme of fraudulent death. Hawthorne's view has been argued in today's discussion on methods such as stem cell research and cloning. The common argument points out that immorality and the final disaster.