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Rappaccini's Daughter
"Rappaccini's Daughter" is definitely a love story of sorts, so I believe that a strong case can be made that says Giovanni is in love with Beatrice. It is not hard to imagine why he would fall for...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
When Giovanni examines the plants in the garden, he recognizes them as unnatural. He thinks that they're fierce as well. These aren't qualities that a person normally attributes to plants. It...
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Giovanni should be nervous about going directly into the garden because he was warned about Rappacini and has seen the man wear personal protective equipment into the garden. Maybe the first days...
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The garden may be Rappaccini's world in the sense that it's the thing that matters the most to him but it's also Rappaccini's world in that he controls what happens in it. Rappaccini loves his...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
The beautiful Giovanni becomes fascinated with the beautiful Beatrice as he watches her from above tend her flowers in the garden next door, alternatively attracted to and repulsed by her. Although...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
The purpose of empirical investigation is to seek information and gain knowledge from actual experience and is based on observation instead of conjecture or belief. Dr. Rappaccini evidently...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Dr. Rappaccini seems to exhibit a complete lack of medical or scientific ethics. Ethics are the moral principles that govern someone's behavior or their participation in a particular activity. When...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Giovanni Guasconti, a young man, comes to Padua, a city in northern Italy, from somewhere to the south, in order to attend college at the University of Padua. He finds a place to stay in a very...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
There is not a definitively correct answer to this question. The answer is subjective and best left to an individual reader to choose the heroic character and support it. In my personal opinion,...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In this short story, Hawthorne forwards his views on science most directly through the character of the scientist Rappaccini. Rappaccini's physical description shows what a lifetime of dedication...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
In health classes, students are taught about the health triangle. It is a triangle that visually shows that a person's total health and wellness is affected by the balance that exists between...
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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
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
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
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
Dr. Rappaccini is an ambitious doctor who seems to care a great deal more about his research than he does about people. Dr. Baglioni's claim that Rappaccini would gladly sacrifice a human life in...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
I couldn't presume to tell you what a story someone else wrote says with absolute certainty. It does, however, seem as if Hawthorne may be suggesting a few things about science and ethics and...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Hawthorne is a very symbolic writer, and "Rappaccini's Daughter" is no exception. There's one overwhelming symbol in this short story, and it's carried throughout the work--the purple plant as...
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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
(Unfortunately, we are only able to answer one question per posting. Other questions must be submitted separately.) In terms of the narrator's point of view, we learn several things throughout the...
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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
Transcendentalists believed in the divinity of nature. Many, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, thought that when we are in nature, something very special happens to us. We return to a childlike state of...
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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
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
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
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
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
Giovanni sees "the ruin of a marble fountain in the centre [of the garden], sculptured with rare art, but so wofully shattered that it was impossible to trace the original design from the chaos of...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
The theme circles around the Garden of Eden and how the experiment in the story is created in such an atmosphere. The daughter is so extremely beautiful, yet she is deadly. Giovanni knows that...
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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
“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, which...
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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
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rapuccini's Daughter" is largely allegorical and explores two facets of the human experience: love and our ability/desire to twist and corrupt nature. Dr. Rapuccini is a kind...
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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 or...
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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
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
Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" is one of those classic stories which is worth discussing. This is a good question with a simple answer--Giovanni had become accustomed to the poison in small...
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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
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
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
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
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter," a young innocent man, Giovanni Guasconti, comes from southern Italy to the University of Paudua, and finds lodgings that overlook a respledent...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
Beatrice is poisoned -- sort of. Her father, a "mad scientist", conducts experiments on plants and flowers, trying to grow the most exotic and beautiful ones he can. His botany experiments are...
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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
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
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
In Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has created very complex characters in what is a study in motive along with a study in good and evil, as well as in science and nature. Giovanni is the...
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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
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappuccini's Daughter," there is one shrub that is set in a marble vase in the middle of the pool of the fountain which bears "a profusion of purple blossoms," that are...
