references to mythology and other works. However, I would like to address the

story of Rappaccini’s Daughter, the fable of Giovanni and Beatrice as an analogy of

Adam and Eve. Also, another interpretation of the story is worth notice: three men

and a woman. All three men have their purposes for and judgments of Beatrice. All

three men project corruption on an innocent, and imbue her with evil that really

On the surface, the analogy to the Bible is clear: Rappaccini as God,

Giovanni and Beatrice as Adam and Eve in the Garden, Baglioni as Satan, lurking

around trying to act upon and influence the characters in the Garden. The tree of

life and death, the eternal fountain of purity flowing. However, the parallels to the

biblical Garden of Eden can also be determined as quite the opposite of their

equivalents in the Bible. Instead of a tree of life; the shrub of death. Instead of the

innocent companions; fearful accomplices. Instead of a benevolent God; a

malevolent Father, his bent purposes imposed on the innocent and unsuspecting

were different, and yet the same, and fraught with some strange peril in either

The same terms are applied to Beatrice, “What is this being? Beautiful shall I call

seemed to effect, a marvellous cure ... but ... he should receive little credit for these

story revolves. The shrub is at once enticing and forbidding, beautiful yet dreadful.

thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and

imagination, to his ambiguity about Beatrice. He attributes Beatrice with the

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