The Birth-Mark

For Georgiana... her choice to make her husband happy, or to what she believes will make him happy, only results in her death.

When Aylmer attempts to manipulate and control Nature, Georgiana dies, which signifies a triumph of Nature over science. As seen in Georgiana’s death and Aylmer’s other failed experiments, Hawthorne dismisses the notion of science’s ability to explain, solve, and discover the mysteries of Nature. Nature creates mankind, and it will always remain more inscrutable and powerful than any sort of scientific inquiry or man-made constructions.