We tend to look at the person as a whole, rather than just their physical aspects. This story shows how a man, in this case, Aylmer, can have control over a woman’s mind. Georgiana’s birthmark never struck her as a hideous feature until her husband asks her if she had ever thought of removing it. Georgiana says to her husband, “To tell you the truth it has been so often called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so” (Hawthorne, 278). It wasn’t until Aylm
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