"The Birthmark" is published in Nathaniel Hawthorne's collection, Mosses From an Old Manse
This is a story of a beautiful woman, Georgiana, whose face is imprinted with a pale red birthmark in the shape of a small hand, and her loving husband Aylmer In the late eighteenth century, there lived a great scientist named Aylmer who takes a break from his experiments to marry a beautiful woman named Georgiana.It was a time of many great scientific discoveries, and the scientists felt that they were uncovering all of nature's mysteries.Also they might soon even be able to create life.  Aylmer had devoted his life to his scientific work, and would never leave the world of science.Aylmer and Georgiana married soon and he brought her to his home. 
One day soon after their marriage Aylmer asks his wife if she did ever considered trying to remove the birthmark on her cheek.Georgiana replies that she has not,
and admits that she always thought it a "charm" of her appearance. Aylmer replayed her that it was the only imperfect aspect of her beauty.Hurt and angry, Georgiana questions why Aylmer agreed to marry her if he felt this way. The narrator describes the birthmark, which is small, pink, hand-shaped, which is located on Georgiana's left cheek. It becomes less visible. Some have speculated that the mark came from a fairy touching Georgiana at the moment of her birth and giving her those most alluring qualities that allowed her to attract so many men.
Others have simply wished the birthmark wasn't there, so a perfect being could exist in the world.Women were the only ones who ever tried to claim that the birthmark actually made Georgiana ugly.As the time passes, he becomes more and more obsessed with it.He spoke to Georgiana and asked her it had never occurred to her to have it removed and also told Georgiana that he thought that the birthmark had marred her perfect beauty.Georgiana was shocked and she burst into tears.  Hence whenever Aylmer looked at the mark in a peculiar way Georgiana Shudder.One night, Georgiana brings up the birthmark herself for the first time, asking Aylmer to recall the dream about it he had the night before.
At first he doesn't remember, although he admits that he was thinking about it when he went to sleep.  Georgiana tells him that he spoke in his sleep of removing something from her heart.Aylmer finally remembers that he did, in fact, dream was that he was trying to operate on the mark, but it keeps going deeper and deeper till he has to extract it fromher heartThe dream makes him realize just  how much he's consumed by thoughts of the birthmark.Georgiana asks if it might be possible to remove it, acknowledging that the attempt could be dangerous. Aylmer admits he had considered that possibility, and he thought that could be done.Georgiana insisted him to try, no matter how dangerous it might be, because the birthmark is ruining her life due to Aylmer's disgust with it.Aylmer's disgust with it.
Aylmer is elated at her willingness and is very confident that he can fix nature's imperfection, partly because he's already gotten pretty close to being able to create life through science.He compares his joy at removing the birthmark to that of Pygmalion when the woman he sculpted and fell in love with came to life.Aylmer brings Georgiana into his laboratory to begin the treatment.She was nervous, and Aylmer tries to comfort her, but instead shudders involuntarily when he catches sight of the birthmark.Surrounded by curtains, it was entirely cut off from the rest of the world, and Georgiana almost felt like she might be in an enchanted room in the sky.Alymer then showed her some of the scientific wonders from his laboratory.Aylmer does not allow sunlight in his laboratory because it would ruin his experiments, so he instead he used chemical lamps to light the room. She saw that Aylmer was not self-assured but tensed.
Aylmer finally told his wife that, he was not confident of the outcome of the experiment. After leading her back to the rooms, Aylmer continued with the experiment.
Finally he produced a liquid for Georgiana to drink and without any hesitancy he drank it.
She then felt asleep as Aylmer observes her.Slowly the birthmark faded till it was almost invisible. Aylmer was exited by this result.Georgiana then awoke and looked in the mirror with happiness. She smiles, but then turned with troubled eyes and informed Aylmer that she was dying. Once the birthmark faded completely, Georgiana diesThe story was originally published in the 19th century but the story was set in 18th century.In the nineteenth century, many understood science as the ultimate cure for the problems of the world.The positivism of the day suggested that science offered the cure to the difficulties of nature, including sickness and death.The story deals with the obsession of human perfection. When Aylmer finally accomplishes success, the story ends tragically