He ends up indirectly killing his own daughter, and leaving her loved one in mourning. ... Rappaccini knows his pride because he, himself, claims that he has created "The Garden of Eden" for his daughter and her loved one. ... Rappaccini's garden is sewn with the roots of pride and arrogance, while the real Garden of Eden was sewn by God, with love and compassion for the two people. ... Rappaccini's daughter suffered social alienation because of his sick love of science. ... He put his love of science before his love of his daughter, which led to her doom in the end of the st...

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The second major setting is the garden. The author uses poetic diction to describe Rappaccini's garden. ... Hawthorne directly compares this beautiful garden to Eden when he writes, "Was this garden, then the Eden of the present world?" ... When Giovanni first sees Beatrice, he is love struck. ... However, later we see that Giovanni's love was actually lust when the student discovers that he has been infected by Beatrice. ...

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The second major setting is the garden. ... When Giovanni first sees Beatrice, he is love struck. ... However, later we see that Giovanni's love was actually lust when the student discovers that he has been infected by Beatrice. ... In this passage, Hawthorne shows that Giovanni's love was actually lust and his tone toward Giovanni is critical. ... This passage shows the purity of her love for Giovanni. ...

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"Rappaccini's Daughter" Out of the window of a gloomy chamber of an old edifice was a beautiful garden. The overflowing garden was filled with many beautiful poisonous flowers. However, no one new of what was to come of this garden and all the poisons in it. ... In Rappaccini's garden everything is poisonous including his daughter. ... All the beautiful flowers in the garden are poisonous, but one stand out, Beatrice's favorite. ...

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She is a prisoner in the garden and her body is full of poison. Her spirit belongs to God and she craves love daily. ... But, Giovanni does not know the secret of her poisonous garden world. ... In both stories, a beautiful young woman becomes the victim of a misguided scientist/idealist who loves her. ... If Rappaccini truly loved his daughter he would not have made her this way. ...

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Geovani, the main character in Rappaccini's Daughter, sees Patricia one day in Rappaccini's garden. He falls in love with her, but soon realizes something not quite right about the girl because everything she touches dies. ... In Rappaccini's Daughter most of the story takes place within a garden. ... Each story deals with nature, Rappaccini creates a garden with a poisonous plant and John battles nature to discover the truth. ...

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Love stories were popular in the Romantic Period. ... She spent most of her time in a garden built by her father. ... In The Scarlet Letter, Hester fell in love with Dimmesdale after her husband was assumed dead. ... In "The Birthmark", Alymer loved Georgiana's beauty. ... His daughter was not able to live a normal life and ended up drinking poison because she felt betrayed by her father and all she ever wanted was to be normal and experience what true love felt like. ...

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Rappaccini who created a Garden of Eden, made his daughter poisonous, and lured a man in to be her husband. ... After Alymer was wed, he took pride in combining his new love with his foremost passion of science in trying to remove a birthmark from her face. ... He took pride of his plant experimentation and in trying to create the perfect Garden of Eden for his daughter. ... Hester's sin has affected her in a positive way in the person of Pearl, the daughter of Hester, which is the symbol of her illicit love affair between Hester and Arthur. ...

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Some sins are committed out of love, like that of Hester and Dimmesdale in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Election is the belief that after man broke covenant with God in The Garden of Eden, a second was made. ...

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The staff represents the snake in the Garden of Eden that led Adam and Eve to their subsequent exile. ... Hawthorne's usage of lightness and darkness show there is no light without dark, no love without hate, no saint without sin. ... "In place of the needed capacity for both love and hate or, in the terms of the story, both evil and good, he develops only a great fear of moral maturity and of the knowledge and responsibility that maturity brings" (Adams 165)....

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Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. The prison is described as a, "wooden jail...already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy fr...

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