Jan 1, 2010

Rappaccini’s Daughter | For Futher Reference

Erlich, Gloria Chasson. 1968. Deadly innocence: Hawthorne’s dark women. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 163-179. Erlich’s article addresses an assortment of Hawthorne’s texts, arguing that he consistently uses plots that are versions of the Fall, depicting his characters as versions of Adam, Eve, and Satan.

Male, Roy. 1957. Hawthorne’s tragic vision. New York: W. W. Norton. Male interprets the story in terms of the dualism of good and evil embodied in all human beings, as represented by Beatrice. Other characters are unable to understand this...