################################## Part 3 #### ###################################### Nature doesn't want things to be perfect if it were otherwise we would not be considered human beings. The Birth-Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the story of a scientist, Aylmer, so self-centered and arrogant in his own scientific power that he went so far as to remove the intentional "imperfect" birthmark that Nature bestowed on his wife's child. face. “You cannot remove this little, little mark… This is beyond your power… Most noble, dearest, most tender wife… doubt not my power” (216). Hawthorne uses the birthmark as a symbol to represent the imperfection that is within the human species, the mark also brings out the imperfection of those who have encountered her by showing their tendency to overlook Georgiana's flawless beauty and focus solely on her birthmark, "Some discriminating people... claimed that the bloody hand... had completely destroyed Georgiana's beauty... Aylmer found this to be the case with her” (214). The symbol of nature is a paradigm of omnipotence Simply put, Nature created the grand design of human life and governs our society, but allows us as people to do what we want with our lives, as long as we do not alter ourselves with Nature's creation, "... Our great creative Mother… She allows us, indeed, to ruin, but rarely to repair, and like a jealous patent holder, for no reason to do” (217). Despite Nature's intentions, as a pompous scientist that he is, Aylmer believes he is something more than a microcosm created by Nature. In other words, because of his unmatched skill in scientific matter, like others... middle of paper... or someone, and if that something or someone happens to be ruined, even in the slightest possible way. In this way, he is completely ignored and put by. Neglecting the importance of Nature's intended design greatly plagued Aylmer's judgment. Nature, to which the great plan of human life is attributed, creates "imperfect" things to give things characteristics different from those of a divinity. Georgiana's birthmark "that one sign of human imperfection... It was the bond by which an angelic spirit held itself in union with a mortal frame" (224). When Aylmer removed that crimson mark from his wife's face, so that he could be with a woman whose beauty surpassed eminence, he rid himself of the only thing that held his wife back from human presence, "The ghostly hand that wrote mortality." (215 ). Aylmer killed his attempt to search for diamonds in a gold mine.