The Birthmark :: Comparison and Contrast, Hawthorne

Every relationship is different. digest one may be in a relationship with a boy, or just a friend, it is different. Even though they are different, the characters in The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne and IND AFF by Fay Weldon are in similar relationships. That is, the virile is dominant over the female, and the charwoman thinks the man is her knight in calendered armor. In the ancestry of IND AFF the unnamed woman thinks her professor, Peter, who she is having an affair with, is her ticket to creating a good thesis and higher standings. Similarly, in The Birthmark, Georgiana thinks her husband is her ticket to perfect beauty because he tells her he will remove her birthmark. Obviously, this is not how relationships master in todays society. These two relationships compare and contrast with severally other as well as with relationships in todays day-and-age. IND AFF takes place in Sarajevo, which is where Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. T his is a key aspect to the invoice because Peter is superb in history and thinks that he necks everything there is to know about history. Likewise, The Birthmark takes place in a laboratory. This is where the Georgianas husband, Aylmer, spends intimately of his spare time. Aylmer thinks he either knows or will be able to discover everything this is to know about science. So, in each story, the man takes the woman to somewhere he knows more about (and is therefore seen as superior) than she does. In both stories, the man is seen as intelligent. In IND AFF Peter says he is a professor of classical history and has a first-class headway (Weldon varlet 202). In The Birthmark Aylmer is referred to as a man of science (Hawthorne scallywag 416) and a genius (Hawthorne page 423). Like the men, the women have similarities and differences. For example, in the beginning of both stories, the women seem confident in themselves. Then, the men tell them otherwise. In IND AFF, Peter tells the woman she does not have a first-class mind (Weldon 202). In, The Birthmark Georgiana is accepting of her birthmark and in fact comes to think of it as a touch from an angel (Hawthorne page 417). Then, her husband tells her birthmark is dispositions slightest possible defect (Hawthorne page 417).