Literary analysis: The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The analysis showed how conceit and arrogance had the power to destroy. Aylmer was always looking for perfection and arrogantly believing that he could achieve this. He became obsessed with what he thought was a flaw, and even said it was a "symbol of his wife's liability to sin, sorrow, decay and death." He drove Georgiana to agree with him, and pushed her to insanity.