Rappaccini’s Daughter
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All Themes Science, Reason, and Humanity Good, Evil, and Morality Love, Passion, and Doubt Knowledge and Sin Gender
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All Characters Giovanni Guasconti Beatrice Rappaccini Giacomo Rappaccini Pietro Baglioni Dame Lisabetta
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All Symbols The Garden
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Rappaccini’s Daughter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  • Science, Reason, and Humanity Theme Icon
    Science, Reason, and Humanity
  • Good, Evil, and Morality Theme Icon
    Good, Evil, and Morality
  • Love, Passion, and Doubt Theme Icon
    Love, Passion, and Doubt
  • Knowledge and Sin Theme Icon
    Knowledge and Sin
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    Gender
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Characters
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  • Giovanni Guasconti
  • Beatrice Rappaccini
  • Giacomo Rappaccini
  • Pietro Baglioni
  • Dame Lisabetta
Symbols
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  • The Garden Symbol Icon
    The Garden
Lit Devices
  • All Literary Devices
  • Allegory
  • Allusions
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Foreshadowing
  • Genre
  • Imagery
  • Irony
  • Metaphors
  • Mood
  • Motifs
  • Personification
  • Setting
  • Similes
  • Situational Irony
  • Style
  • Tone
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The Garden

Rappaccini’s garden shows the reader that it is dangerous for humans to interfere with nature. Upon his arrival in Padua, Giovanni is told that his neighbor, Dr. Rappaccini, tends a garden filled with scientifically…

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