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Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” initiates an unattainable theme of superficial perfection that has become an alarming combination of hobby, desire, and need in the last century. Hawthorne symbolizes and demonstrates this allegory and premise towards a much larger argument of forewarning the Transcendentalist America that perfection is an illusion and the hunt for such means may be conflicting with God or nature. In Hawthorne’s context and theme lies an eternal plight for being a close 2nd to God, but as an analogy, the “Tower of Babel”, in the Bible, explicitly portrays the reprimand that God has in store for such impractical ideals.
Time has proven Hawthorne’s parable to be more precise and significant, as the society of the 19th c
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