Nathaniel Hawthorne was a part of the American Romantic movement (1830-1860), more specifically the Dark Romantic (or Gothic). Romantics, and their texts, tended to idealize the individual, the imagination, the emotional, and the exotic. Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" is representative of the period based upon the imagery and themes of the text.
Georgiana's birthmark represents two very different things: mortality/imperfection and original sin. Both of these ideas speak to the thoughts of the Romantic. Imperfection makes...
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America. At least, from what I understand about his question. I don't know if you mean from a different place or not but this was the first thing that popped into my head.
"I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice."
Metaphor: King compares injustice and oppression to sweltering heat and freedom and justice to an oasis.