Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter and “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, uses the concept of evil as a main theme in some of his stories. “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is not a simple story focusing on a clear line separating good from evil. Instead, the story focuses on the gray area where good and evil overlap. In Rappaccini’s Daughter, Rappaccini, a scientist who “cares more for science than fo