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It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in Padua who grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others.
Rappaccini, a scholar-scientist in Padua, grows only poisonous plants in his lush garden. His lovely daughter, Beatrice , has been nurtured on poison and is sustained by her father’s toxic plants. Giovanni, a student who lives next door to Rappaccini, falls in love with Beatrice and becomes contaminated by the garden’s poisonous aura.
A short story about a scientist who grows poisonous plants and his daughter who is immune to them. Learn about the themes of science, love, and death in this classic tale of horror and romance.
A romantic and gothic tale of a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman in a poisonous garden. Read the full text, analysis, and study guide of this classic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a doctor who experiments with poisonous plants and his daughter Beatrice, who resembles them. Learn about the themes, characters, symbols, and literary devices of this tale of science and morality.
Beatrice is Giovanni’s love interest, Doctor Rappaccini’s daughter, and the source of the story’s controversy. By raising her in his garden of poisonous flowers, Rappaccini has raised Beatrice to be poisonous to any living thing—yet… read analysis of Beatrice Rappaccini.
Learn about Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Rappaccini’s Daughter, a tragedy set in Italy about a poisonous woman and her lover. Find plot summary, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
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