Nathaniel Hawthorne describes Aminadab: "With his great strength, his shaggy hair, his smoky appearance, and the indescribable earthiness that encrusted him, he seemed to represent the physical nature of the man” (Hawthorne 337). This statement foreshadows the events to come. Amindab was behind Aylmer the whole time during his experiments. However, Amindab once murmured, “If she were my wife, I would never part with this birthmark” (Hawthorne 337). So Amindab didn't agree with what Aylmer was doing, but he continued anyway. Aminadab wanted Georgina to think of herself as beautiful and not let Aylmer use her as a guinea pig. Still, I suppose Georgiana's love for Aylmer was strong enough that she would do anything to be beautiful in his eyes. In this whole story, Aminadab has been the voiceless Nature. Aminadab's one sentence in this story shows that he thought what Aylmer was doing was really wrong. Hawthorne even goes to the trouble of describing Aminadab to us as a “physical nature of man.” Hawthorne's statement allows us to interpret the Aminadab as the force of Nature. At the end of the story, Hawthorne recounts a slight laugh coming from Aminadab just before Georgiana dies. Aminadab's laughter symbolizes that Nature has won the battle against Science. The battle between Nature and Science took away poor Georgiana and her infinite beauty, and ultimately ended with her