"The Birthmark" & "Desiree's Baby"

I believe that a person nowdays has an oppurtunity to improve themselves physically if they choose to and if that would make someone happier on an everyday basis then they should by all means do so. I feel that it is common sense that if you are unhappy about something and you have the tools at your disposal to take care of whatever makes you unhappy then you use those tools. I do not believe that improving ones body is tampering with mother nature rather that it is improving the one thing that is that person's and the only thing that person has totally and completely to themselves.

Geogiana went from viewing her birthmark as a charm to viewing it as a curse because of her husband. Befor Georgiana thought the birthmark was special and made her unique but then her husband made the comment about how she was almost made perfectly by the hand of nature except for her one blemmish (the birthmark). The author even describes that the wife was red in the face from anger as her first reaction to the comment and then the sadness of her husbands words sank in and she burst out in tears because the one person who is suppose to love her completely sees the birthmark more than anything else.

the fact that "Desiree's Baby" is set in the time period right before the Civil War makes the ending to this story so much more shocking and surprising. I did not see the fact that the mother was the color of a slave coming at all! As well as when Armand is burning Desiree's things after she has drowned herself and their baby he finds the note from his mother basically telling him that he is the race of the slaves as well and this is a moment of great internal conflict for Armand in this story.