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In "Rappaccini's Daughter" there are three men focused on Beatrice, and.
three different points of view. Each point of view reflects each man, and each man.
projects his own inner corruption onto Beatrice.
Giovanni, a shallow and vain young man, finds corruption where none exists.
in the beautiful but deadly Beatrice, but fails to see her true danger until it is too.
late. He does not let her fine and noble character convince him of her innate.
goodness and depth of soul. His shallowness reflects itself in his judgment of her.
character. She is a lonely woman grateful for the affection and attention received.
from Giovanni. When his attentions turn to pursuit, she is frightened because she.
knows that her touch would be death to him. She withholds returning his.
affections, but does not give explanations, which leaves him with only his.
imagination. By turns Giovanni's perceptions tell him that Beatrice is evil and.
corrupt, then good and pure. .
""Beatrice came back to his passionate musings, invested with all the.
witchery that had been gathering around it ever since his first .
glimpse of her, and now likewise imbued with a tender warmth of.
girlish womanhood. She was human; her nature was endowed with.
all gentle and feminine qualities ; she was worthiest to be worshipped;.
she was capable, surely, on her part, of the height and heroism of love. .
Those tokens which he had hitherto considered as proofs of a frightful.
peculiarity in her physical and moral system were now either .
forgotten, or, by the subtle sophistry of passion transmitted into a.
golden crown of enchantment, rendering Beatrice the more admirable.
by so much as she was the more unique. Whatever had looked ugly.
was now beautiful; or, if incapable of such a change, it stole away and.
hid itself among thos shapeless half ideas which throng the dim.
region." (p. 1759).
Beatrice asks Giovanni to avoid all notions of her character which he has.