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Rappaccini's Daughter
Giovanni Guasconti has moved to northern Italy in order to attend classes at the University of Padua, though he is originally from the southern part of the country. It sounds as though he finds the...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Professor Pietro Baglioni does not like Doctor Rappaccini. When Giovanni first brings up Rappaccini's name, Baglioni's demeanor changes immediately, and he doesn't respond with the same cordiality...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
This is an interesting comparison. Let's first consider the role of the Sun in "The Allegory of the Cave." Plato states that most people live life as if they are trapped in a cave, able to face one...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
The idea that the individual is always at odds with society is conveyed by "The Minister's Black Veil" when Mr. Hooper begins to wear the black veil and is immediately and permanently feared,...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In the story itself, Giovanni never truly does reflect on himself and his own actions and responsibilities. Once he realizes that his nature has become imbued with the same poisons as Beatrice, he...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
One of the themes which connects "Rapaccini's Daughter" and "The Birthmark" is that of the intellectual pride of the scientist. In Hawthorne's time, science was not what chemistry and physics are...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Beatrice is mortified when Giovanni accuses her of having deliberately entrapped him and turned him into a poisonous being like herself. When he exhales into a cloud of little bugs and twenty of...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In the hour of Beatrice's birth, as she tells Giovanni, her father successfully created this plant with the purple flowers. It sprouted from the earth just as she was born. It is an incredibly...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” contains a number of Gothic elements, including the setting, the supernatural and extreme emotions. Gothic fiction usually involves some kind of old, run-down castle...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Prior to coming into contact with or seeing Beatrice, Giovanni is warned by his own sense of danger while surveying the garden from his window. He sees Rappaccini taking strenuous precautions while...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
When Giovanni, from his window, first sees Beatrice in the garden, she is "arrayed with as much richness of taste as the most splendid of the flowers, beautiful as the day, and with a bloom so deep...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Beatrice can be seen as a pawn of the men because she makes relatively few decisions for herself in the story; most of the story's action takes place as a result of her father's and Giovanni's...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Beatrice's relationship with the large flower is shown first with the counter-example of her father's relationship with the plant, and second, it is shown by her own interaction with it. This is...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Imagine that you had a father who was a scientist, and as soon as you came into the world, your father used you as a guinea pig to gain scientific knowledge; that this isolated you from the world...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Yes, Rappaccini is a good botanist. He has a flourishing garden that attests to the devotion he has for his craft and his science. Professor Pietro Baglioni even admits to Giovanni that...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Rappaccini, in the short story "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, loves Beatrice, his daughter, in a literally poisonous way that does not constitute true love. As Baglioni explains to...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
When Giovanni first speaks with his father's old friend, Professor Baglioni, the professor tells him that Dr. Rappaccini cares a great deal more about science than he does about people and that he...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
It is unclear whether or not Baglioni knows that his antidote would kill Beatrice. On the one hand, when he sees her die after drinking it, he calls out "with horror," asking Dr. Rappaccini if his...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Baglioni first suspects that Giovanni's interest in Dr. Rappaccini proceeds from an interest in his daughter, Beatrice. She is famously rumored to be quite beautiful and knowledgeable, and her...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Rappaccini seems to attribute greater importance to his art than to his daughter because he has condemned her to a life of solitude in a poisonous Eden for the sake of his experimentation. He...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Both Beatrice and the garden are poisonous. This much is obvious. But both are also innocent. The garden is clearly not a conscious being with malicious intent. It just happens to be beautiful and...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Dr. Rappaccini is an esteemed and skilled physician, but "he cares infinitely more for science than for mankind." He treats his patients as interesting medical experiments rather than human beings,...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Doctor Rappaccini is said by Professor Guasconti to have a great devotion to science, a greater devotion to science than to people, and he is willing to sacrifice people, including himself, for...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini is a classical evil scientist figure, whose towering intellect and intellectual curiosity have led him to delve into the...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Let's set the stage for the significance of this line, which can only be understood knowing what has occurred before and what occurs after. Giovanni is a young student who takes lodgings in rooms...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
The opening of "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne states that The young stranger, who was not unstudied in the great poem of his country, recollected that ... this family, ... had...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
The line you mention from "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the plants and flowers in the garden which was created and is maintained by Doctor Rappaccini and his daughter,...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Rappacini's name is connotative of the adjective rapacious which means excessively grasping or greedy. Using his daughter, who looks "redundant with life, health, and energy" Rappacini, a ruthless...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Signor Pietro Baglioni, Professor of Medicine in the University, a physician of eminent repute,.... Professor Baglioni is a doctor of great fame and prestige (i.e, "eminent repute") in Padua....
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Rappaccini's Daughter
It is likely that your teacher or professor wants you to write a paragraph describing Beatrice in your own words and phrasing; however, I can remind you of some of her characteristics and...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, along with Herman Melville, is considered to be one of the primary novelists of the Romantic movement in American literature; Walt Whitman most exemplifies this movement in...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Doctor Pietro Baglioni is one of the few characters in "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Baglioni is a well respected professor of medicine at the University of Padua and is known as...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter" only has four characters, and Beatrice is one of them. She is the daughter of Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini, and she is his only child. Her mother...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Beatrice, being like a sister to the flowers of the Garden, is the only real inhabitant of the Garden. Having confirmed that Beatrice is as poisonous as she is beautiful, Giovanni becomes enraged...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
I would suggest that leaders have been debating this question since the beginning of time, but most seem to have determined that fear is a better motivator than love. In everyday life, fear and...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In his story, "Rappaccini's Daughter," Hawthorne raises a question proposed by others such as Victor Hugo with his character Claude Frollo and Mary Shelley with Victor Frankenstein: What are the...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
"Rappaccini's Daughter" was originally titled "Writings of Aubépine: Rappaccini's Daughter." Aubépine is French for the hawthorn plant. So, Aubépine is Hawthorne. And the answer to your question...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
I don't think Hawthorne lost control. He was experimenting with metaphor and allegory. There is certainly a reference to Dante's The Divine Comedy and you could say that Giovanni is guided by...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Emerson was a man who was interested in individualism, the natural world and the condition of one's soul. Nature, Emerson's essay written in 1836... ...is a well-organized statement of his...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In "Rappaccini's Daughter," it becomes clear that Beatrice is the character that enjoys the most significant relationship with non-human life forms or the natural world. She is depicted as...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
There are several similarities in the Old Testament story of the Garden of Eden and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter." One line in the short story that makes me think of the story of...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” concludes with the following paragraph: To Beatrice--so radically had her earthly part been wrought upon by Rappaccini's skill--as...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
“Romanticism” is a term often used to describe many works of art produced in the early nineteenth century. Romanticism is often seen as a reaction against the art of the eighteenth century,...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
It is worth remembering that Hawthorne was actually known as a Dark Romantic, which means that his fiction focuses on the dark side of Romanticism rather than skylarks and the beauty of nature....
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Rappaccini's Daughter
When Giovanni Guasconti came to Padua in order to attend the university, he takes lodgings in tall, gloomy room of an old building which has a coat of arms over the doorway. An old woman instructs...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Consider the idea in both stories that the fathers, in having a part in the molding, so to speak, of their daughters, desire that they be superior. But, ironically, it is this setting of the...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
One element common to both Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" is that of patriarchal dominance. For, both Emily Grierson and Beatrice Rappaccini are subugated by...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
what are all the charaters in Rappaccini’s Daughter ?
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Rappaccini's Daughter
It could be argued that Giovanni does not love Beatrice at all. Giovanni does not love and accept Beatrice as she is; he cannot look beyond the poisonous elements in her physical nature in order to...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In Hawthorne's short story, Giovanni reasons, but he is guided by emotion--his own selfish emotions. Although he understands intellectually that Beatrice represents danger to him, he is emotionally...