Nathaniel Hawthorne - Two Stories‘ Essay

* Two Moral Tales: “The Birthmark” and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
* While both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark” and Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” emphasizesallegorical meanings through engaging moral tales. Both novels expose subjects of persuasion, morality and life’s mystery. Different texts of distinct eras advise readers where a person could possiblyends when he or she left himself or herself be taken by the ego or ignore truth and love.
* Hawthorne in his novel “The Birthmark” reader will find a subject mentioned at the last paragraph:* “None! None whatever!” replied Aylmer, starting; but then he added, in a dry, cold tone, affected for the sake of concealing the real depth of his emotion, “I might well dream of it; for before Ifell asleep it had taken a pretty firm hold of my fancy” (Hawthorne 345).
* Surely, Aylmer is obsessed with the little birthmark in Georgiana’s cheek (Aylmer’s Wife). That situation pushed him toas scientist take the challenge to find a solution because to him seems that perfection means everything. However, her nature’s defect has not been considered a fault to Georgiana’s lovers that “wouldhave risked life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand” (344); in others words, to posses her. But to Aylmer was not agree about that. He considered that the cheek’s mark “wasfatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions” (345). Nevertheless, he persuaded his wife to recognize in such smallest thing, a huge nastyfaultiness. “If there be the remotest possibility of it... let the attempt be made at whatever risk” (346).
* On the other hand, in O’Connor’s novel, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” readers willfind similar scenery:
* The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at very chance to change Bailey’s mind....