Beauty can be defined as the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations, a meaningful design or pattern. In “The Birthmark”, it is a tragic and upsetting example of what gender, and beauty represent. The book is an example of what society examines towards gender roles and beauty. Georgiana is devoted to making her husband Alymer happy by jeopardizing her life so he would not suffer from considering her birthmark on her cheek. Thus, potential perfection is not worth a life. Analyzing the gender aspect of the story can be explained by Judith Fetterley. She wrote an article called Women Beware Science: “The Birthmark”. Alymer simply looks at his…show more content… Beauty is not everything that should be the qualifications in looking for a spouse. Fetterley wrote the Women Beware Science to explain that men idealize women to be perfect in the nature of their beauty. To Fetterley it is “sickness of men” to try to create a perfect being. “The Birthmark” is “a parable of woman’s relations to the cult of female beauty, a cult whose political function is to remind women that they are in their natural state, unacceptable, and imperfect.” It is difficult to live in a society where the people and higher groups tell women that they are not beautiful by looking inside women’s magazines. Women believe this and buy the product hopefully to cover the flaw that they have. “The Birthmark, demonstrates the consequences to women of being trapped in the laboratory of a man’s mind, the object of unrelenting scrutiny, examination, and experimentation” (Fetterley). Georgiana’s beauty to Alymer should have already been pure delicacy in his eyes, instead he tried to change the way she was meant to…show more content… She was completely for it just to make him happy. Georgiana fell into the role of women are supposed to honor societal rules and honor her husband, dying for your husbands needs is a bit too far. The gender inequality is accepted in this story just to show a situation that this true to people today. What Hawthorne means by science in this short story is that man would do things to experiment to make something perfect. Alymer was a scientists who obsessed perfection. Alymer was jealous of the fact that he gave up all of his science experiments and what he loved to do for Georgiana. Georgiana was now “supposed” to be Alymer’s pride and joy instead of science utensils. “The Birthmark, demonstrates the consequences to women of being trapped in the laboratory of a man’s mind, the object of unrelenting scrutiny, examination, and experimentation”