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When fantasy crosses over into reality one comes up with the perfect person. Perfection is striving to be without defect, which happens to be what the main characters in the story “The Birthmark” and the movie Gattaca are trying to achieve. Throughout life people are always striving to be the perfect football player, paper writer, man for that girl, or whatever else might be their dream even though it has been proven impossible for people to obtain perfection. If the world was full of perfect people, the world would have no flaws or problems which then reality as we know it would not exist. In the story “The Birthmark” and the movie Gattaca perfection is not portrayed as a reachable goal, but as a point people venture through a lifetime to reach. Even though both stories are aiming to make different aspects of humanity perfect, they both are still questing for that flawless image. In “The Birthmark”, Aylmer has a stunning wife that he thinks has, “come so nearly perfect from the hand of nature, that the slightest possible defect being the visible mark of earthy imperfections.” In this passage Hawthorne is showing that the closer to perfection you are the harder people look for any imperfection in you then blow i