The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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