{"id":9918,"date":"2023-03-21T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/hawthorne-explores-the-idea-of-perfection-and-imperfection-in-the-birth-mark\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T20:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:42:40","slug":"hawthorne-explores-the-idea-of-perfection-and-imperfection-in-the-birth-mark","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/hawthorne-explores-the-idea-of-perfection-and-imperfection-in-the-birth-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorne explores the idea of perfection and imperfection in \u201cThe Birth-Mark.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near the end of &#8220;The Birth-Mark&#8221;, the narrator states: &#8220;Yet, had Alymer reached a profounder wisdom,&nbsp; he need not thus have flung away the happiness, which would have woven his mortal life of the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;self-same texture with the celestial.&#8221; He then concludes that &#8220;he failed&#8230;to find the perfect future in the present.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I need a double-spaced, one-page paper analyzing how Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the idea of&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; perfection and imperfection in &#8220;The Birth-Mark&#8221;. (I&#8217;m including a copy of the short story.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Support the narrative with 4 direct quotations from the text.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Be sure to write in 3rd person (do not use &#8220;I&#8221; or &#8220;You&#8221;)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Use present-tense verbs such as: states, writes, observes, etc.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the end of &#8220;The Birth-Mark&#8221;, the narrator states: &#8220;Yet, had Alymer reached a profounder wisdom,&nbsp; he need not thus have flung away the happiness, which would have woven his mortal life of the&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;self-same texture with the celestial.&#8221; He then concludes that &#8220;he failed&#8230;to find the perfect future in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1116],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}