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. ...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1442
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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)....

• Word Count: 1393
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School