Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Story

https://theoviebooks.wordpress.com/ "The Birth-Mark" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The tale examines obsession with human perfection. Aylmer is a brilliant and recognized scientist and philosopher who drops his focus from his career and experiments to marry the beautiful Georgiana, who is physically perfect except for a small red birthmark in the shape of a hand on her cheek. "I might wish to put off this birthmark of mortality by relinquishing mortality itself in preference to any other mode." First published March 1843 Ovi Magazine: Published May 2022