The central conflict of the story, Georgiana’s birthmark also represents nature and human’s impending mortality. One of three main characters, Georgiana is described as being the perfect woman; the birthmark said to be the only blemish of her beautiful complexion, is “deeply interwoven…with the texture and substance of her face” (506). As the birthmark appears to be engrained in Georgiana’s face, it is symbolically inferred that it is also engrained into her character. Also, it is learned that the
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”, serves as an allegorical representation of how one’s fascination and delicate mortality can eventually take over ones idea of themselves. Hawthorne portrays this allegorical idea through the use of irony, ambiguity, and symbolism. “The Birthmark”, a crimson hand that marks the cheek of the wife Georgiana. This birthmark is the underlying symbol in the story. This birthmark is what Georgiana’s Husband claims as a weakness and tries to get rid of it, however
The Irony Surrounding Symbolism Irony is a literary element that is often used in the Lord of the Flies in order to foreshadow at different aspects, events and situations between the characters and themselves. As with juxtaposition, diction and symbolism, irony plays an important role in the shaping of character development, conflicts, and the display of the main theme. The use irony evokes a deeper meaning to symbolic items and events that represent the main theme in the Lord of the Flies. The
Thomas Hobbes, a famous English philosopher once proclaimed that the natural state of human life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Hobbes believed that without government and order the evil nature of mankind will surface and present its true colours. Indeed, this very idea is developed in the novel “Lord of the Flies” (LF) by William Golding, a story of a group of English boys who are stranded on an inhabited island after their plane was attacked during WW2. Golding purposely places