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Written in 1843, the “The Birth-Mark” is a story of love, infatuation, emotional attachment, desire of perfect-beauty and sacrifice. In other words, “The Birth-Mark” can be called a story authored by Nathaniel Hawthorne about extraordinary love between Aylmer and Georgia. Aylmer was a scientist who, in order to make his wife (Georgia) perfect by her charming glory, attempts to remove her birthmark from her skin. Going through “The Birth-Mark” the reader has got to be forced to reconsider spontaneously human desire for perfection and its appropriateness.The story touches the emotions of readers forcing them to introspect the actual definition of perfect beauty. 

The Renaissance was a popular cultural movement that began in Italy and later spread to the rest of Europe. It spanned roughly from the 14th through the 17th century. The Renaissance was a great intellectual reawakening that encompassed the revival of classical learning and profoundly affected art, literature, philosophy, religion, science, politics and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanism method to study and search for realism and human emotion in art. Renaissance thinkers desired to learn from classical or ancient text written in Latin or Greek. Scholars searched Europe’s libraries for works of antiquity which had fallen into obscurity for long. In such texts they found a desire to improve and perfect their worldly knowledge.