Premium Content Twice-Tilled Tracts: Revisions of the Garden of Eden in Hawthorne's Short Stories
By Theoderek Wayne - December 02, 2001
Hawthorne marks his characters as potential usurpers of God who are undermined by an inability to negotiate with human chaos. Confronted with examples of imperfection or fragmentation, the scientific minds of "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini¹s Daughter," and "Ethan Brand" attempt to efface or fuse flaws as they seek an impossible ideal of total…
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