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Young Goodman Brown and The Birthmark, both stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, use dreams to uncover the central characters and put influence on the story. In each story, the dreams manifested are extremely helpful to the development of the story. These dreams sho ....

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.... has a dream in which he commits an act of horrendous cruelty to his wife, Georgiana. This dream delves into Aylmer's personality, as the realization that he will stop at nothing in order to destroy the slight imperfection on the cheek of Georgiana. Dreams are often viewed as a perception of a person's unconscious mind. Aylmer is not a selfish man in his wishes for his wife to have her birthmark removed. He is just unable to control himself, much like children do. As a result of this new view of Hawthorne's character, we are now aware that Aylmer will not be held back by anything in his pursuit for what he believes to be perfection. Young Goo ....