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What would you say is the theme for "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

If I had to sum it up in one word, I would say the "sublime." That is to say, in the Romantic period one of the ideas about art, beauty, and nature that circulated was the idea of the sublime: a natural phenomenon so striking that it produced a kind of austere awe in the viewer. That happens with the daughter here, in an extreme and physical way. She's completely stunning: she's beautiful. She is also, however, deadly. This could be seen as the danger of the beautiful woman, or how deadly beauty can be, but I prefer the sublime.