《胎记》是美国著名作家霍桑的经典短篇小说,讲述了科学的狂热崇拜者艾尔默,为了实现征服自然、战胜上帝的梦想,不惜以牺牲妻子的生命为代价,通过科学实验消除妻子脸上胎记的故事。霍桑对这种盲目追求科学违背自然规律的行为,在小说的结尾以“死亡”的形式提出了严重警告。反对以科技理性扼杀纯真人性的理念正是霍桑短篇小说科技观的体现。 Birthmark is a classic short story written by Hawthorne, a famous writer in the United States, and tells the story of Elmer, a fanatic of science. In order to realize her dream of conquering nature and defeating God, she sacrificed his wife’s face at the expense of his wife’s life The story of the birthmark. Hawthorne gave a serious warning to such a blind pursuit of science against the laws of nature at the end of the novel in the form of “death”. It is the embodiment of Hawthorne’s short story science and technology that opposes the idea of ​​strangling innocence and human beings with reason of science and technology.