Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birthmark

 

1. Analyze the story in at least some of the following ways:
 Renaissance reading: the quest for perfection
 Romanticist reading: short-sighted human hubris & interfering with nature
 Religious reading: defying God’s will
 Feminist reading: male ego vs. female sacrifice
 Feminist/Freudian reading: the fear of female mystique and sexuality

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