Question: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe all express skepticism about an unlimited human potential seeing our natures as inherently flawed, in a variety of ways, for a variety of reasons. Using the ministers black veil by Hawthorne, the birth mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the imp of the perverse by Edgar Allan Poe discuss how this writers portray human nature as limited in its potential.