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Rappaccini's Daughter

“Was this garden, then, the Eden of the present World?” The short story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, by the American romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne, begins with suggestions that the garden of the hands of Signor Giacomo Rappaccini symbolizes the Garden of Eden. It is in this garden that symbolizes Beatrice as the eve in the Garden of Eden. Beating relates to Eve because she is also a sinner, she is born with original sin, she’s poisonous. Beatrice also attracts and persuades Giovanni, who represents Adam. This is one of the ways in which Hawthorne suggests that everyone is said to have committed a sin. Because links can be established between the main characters and sinful acts, it is said that this work of Hawthorne is a puritanical allegory, pointing at the sin in everyone.

The “Garden of Eden” is full of plants and flowers, all cultivated by Doctor Rappaccini. Rappaccini offers a


Giovanni “took lodgings in a high and gloomy chamber of an old edifice,” that neighbors the garden of Rappaccini. He finds the garden intriguing, and as the story progresses, Giovanni begins to be drawn to Beatrice. Her mysterious nature strikes him as he witnessed an orange colored reptile, contort itself and die after coming into contact with few drops of moisture from a broken stem of a plant in the garden. He also began questioning his conscious when he later saw an insect fly around Beatrice being attracted to her beauty, that later dropped and fell from Beatrice’s breathe. His curiosity and Beatrice’s beauty pulls Giovanni closer and closer to Beatrice. Soon he falls in love with the beautiful that has the poisonous breath, and has occasional meetings with her. From having been estranged from all of society, Beatrice too falls in love with Giovanni. However, Giovanni soon gets

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