Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe Formal Summary Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birthmark (Psychological Thriller): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of” The Scarlet Letter,” The House with the Seven Gables” &” Twice-Told Tales”(Including Biography). e-art now, 2015. http://fountainheadpress.com/expandingthearc/assets/hawthornebirthmark.pdf In a book titled “The Birth – Mark” (Psychological thriller, 2015), Nathaniel Hawthorne analyzes spiritual desires together with human imperfection. Aylmer, a proficient scientist studying natural philosophy, marries a wife by the name of Georgiana. Unlike other women, his beautiful wife has a birthmark on her left cheek, whose drawing resembles a human hand (Hawthorne 11). This birthmark disturbs Aylmer’s mind because he viewed it as a mark that