Analytical Essay Of Rappaccini's Daughter

Rappaccini's garden sets the stage of this fable, while the characters of the story each represent the important figures from the Genesis account. Through the literary devices of poetic and descriptive diction, Nathaniel Hawthorne conveys the symbolism of these characters, as well as the setting. The story takes place in mid-nineteenth century in Padu

The second major setting is the garden. The author uses poetic diction to describe Rappaccini’s garden. Hawthorne writes, “There was one shrub in particular…that bore a profusion of purple blossoms, each of which had the luster and richness of a gem…seemed enough to illuminate the garden, even had there been no sunshine…some crept serpent like along the ground or climbed on high…” In this passage, the author depicts the liveliness and beauty of the garden in an almost fantasy-like way, a fantasy too good to be true and destined to end tragically. Hawthorne directly compares this beautiful garden to Eden when he writes, “Was this garden, then the Eden of the present world?” Thus, Rappaccini’s garden symbolizes the setting of the init

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