In “Rappaccini’s Daughter” the young, beautiful Beatrice is isolated—literally—as a result of the poison her father has instilled into her. This poison has made it impossible for her to enjoy the company of other people due to the fact that she is doomed to destroy that which she simply breathes upon. Throughout the short story, the reader becomes familiar with this curse; however, the reader also discovers, as does Beatrice, that all humans possess their own form of th

Additionally, Beatrice is a beautiful, young woman “whom all the young men in Padu are wild about.” Her institution—gardening—appears to be innocent, and with the exception of Baglioni—and somewhat later, Giovanni—Beatrice is beyond all suspicion of any form of evil, just as Father Hooper is a trusted minister in his community. Father Hooper is described as being of a “blameless example, holy in deed and thought.” Both of these people, however, come to be feared and possibly even hated. Each is cursed with his own form of evil which isolates him from the world in which he might have lived. In Beatrice’s instance, she is quite obligated or predestined to live a life of seclusion because of her father’s decisions—though she chooses to drink the antidote alone, and therefore pass into immortality without her former friend, Giovanni. Father Hooper’s isolation is more chosen than destined, as it is by his own wish that he wears the dreaded black veil in an attempt to pr

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