Describing Biblical Parallels In Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
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In Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter,” many biblical parallels can be
found. The story duplicates the chapter of genesis in the bible in many ways.
Ranging from the characters, to the setting, and even the deadly plant in the
story. The account of Adam and Eve in Genesis 1-3 is extremely sim ....
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.... The plant in Rappaccini's
garden is a large flowering bush. The flowers on this bush are unlike any
others and extremely exquisite. The two plants share the trait of “forbidden,”
but in different ways. The fruit on the tree in Genesis was forbidden simply
because that was the way God made it. The plant in Rappaccini's garden was
forbidden because it was poisonous. The only people immune to the poison of
this plant were Beatrice and Dr. Rappaccini.
In Hawthorne's story, a parallel b ....
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