... violate the rules of Nature. The evil nature of this character is stressed by his association with the black colour in the story, first, when Giovanni sees him in the poisonous garden "dressed in a scholar's garb of black" ( ... first sees the garden. This peculiarity of the shrub and its qualities remind us of the Bible's Tree of knowledge. The garden's shrub is similar to the Tree of Knowledge, in the Garden of Eden, in that both are temptations to ... life, when he became the American Consul in Liverpool18. The other concern related to family matters concerns his ancestors. In the c...

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