Analysis Of ' Rappaccini 's Daughter '

Since the beginning of human existence love has earned a meaning of pure bliss and wild passion between two people that cannot be broken. Through out time the meaning of love has had its slight shifts but for the most part, maintains a positive value. In the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields,” the author, Susan Griffin expresses that this long lost concept of love is often concealed by the madness of everyday life and reality. In the poem, Griffin uses many literary elements to help convey the importance of true love. The usage of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques really help communicate Griffins’ meaning

Throughout “Love Should Grow up Like an Wild Iris in the Fields” Susan Griffin provokes the readers to think twice about why they consistently enslave themselves with the burden of daily monotony, instead of enjoying the simplicity of love. Griffin uses two metaphors in her poem when describing love, as a flower, as well as the iris of an eye. Her comparisons are both interesting as well as accurate.

The feeling of love is magical; the world is painted with pastel singing birds and blooming flowers, and the heart is full and warm as the lover inadvertently falls deeper into the realm of affection for a person he sees through a pair of blinders. While love can bring the emotions of joy, tenderness, and a sense of wholeness in one’s heart, the soul-crushing, heart-wrenching discovery that the lover does not share mutual feelings drastically shifts the perfect world of a person in love into a chaotic world of anguish. Feelings of anger, bitterness, and longing consumes the lover and leaves him in a frenzy of mixed emotions. In John Donne’s “Love’s Deity”, the complex feelings associated with unrequited love is displayed through the use of

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All” both attempt to define love, by telling what love is and what it is not. Shakespeare’s sonnet praises love and speaks of love in its most ideal form, while Millay’s poem begins by giving the impression that the speaker feels that love is not all, but during the unfolding of the poem we find the ironic truth that love is all. Shakespeare, on the other hand, depicts love as perfect and necessary from the beginning to the end of his poem. Although these two authors have taken two completely different approaches, both have worked to show the importance of love and to define it. However, Shakespeare is most confident of his definition of love, while Millay seems

“Being only a daughter for my father meant my destiny would lead me to become someone’s wife”, like Sandra Cisneros illustrates in her essay “Only Daughter”, many women in the Mexican-American culture used to not have other choice in life, but to eventually become someone’s wife. Cisneros focuses on the lives of first and second generation Mexican American females. In her essay, she brings the reader her own life story to support the struggle that many Mexican-American women had to experience at the time the essay was written, and that can still be seen in modern society. In her essay, Cisneros effectively convinces her reader of the difficulties of growing as a female, more specifically, as an only daughter in a Mexican-American family of nine.

As the reader is introduced to the companionship of newfound lovers, we are also aware of its potential confounds of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrestles with a spiritual account down a dreadful trail as the reader is signaled by his wife’s truth of her wisdom and foreknown sensing evil. Through the account of husband’s stepping out on his commitment to Faith and marriage, his walk of confusion and disillusionment knows the reality of conscious yield to evil.

Some of Hawthorne’s works are parallel in many aspects as in “The Birthmark” and “Rappaccinis Daughter” with a common obsession of scientific beauty and manipulation, the death. Both men have the obsession of science where Aylmer wants to help mankind unlike Rappacini’s work to destroys mankind “Rappaccini “cares infinitely more for science than for mankind”” (Roy R. Male, 1954). Georgiana’s is manipulated with her self-esteem easily convince her of the birthmark’s discouragement to her beauty “Life is but a sad possession to those who have attained precisely the degree of moral advancement at which I stand. Were I weaker and blinder, it might be happiness” (Bunge, 1993 ) Rappacini merely manipulates Beatrice with lies. Georgiana is clear to see that for Aylmer to achieve perfection, it will cost her life “She attributes this self-destructive attitude to the inspiring influence of Aylmer’s high standards and urges him to continue his noble work, at any cost” (Bunge, 1993 ) Rappaccini’s payment was the loss of a child when Beatrice took her life; diminishing the

As singer-songwriter, Eric Burdon says, “Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.¨ Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini's Daughter” is a short story about a young student called Giovanni who falls in love with a girl called Beatrice. Will Weaver’s “WWJD?” is about suzy who is a very religious sixteen year old girl. She is a transfer student to Riverfolk high school, she is often bullied by Eddie and his gang. Both pieces of literature share a lot of similarities and differences. One main theme that stands out between the two pieces is corruption.

Nevertheless, both Giovanni and Beatrice are similar in many ways regarding isolationism. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter” Giovanni and Beatrice are both led into isolation by older figures. Giovanni is led into the garden, which is an isolated area, by Lisabetta. Equally important, Hawthorne uses Rappaccini’s garden to isolate Beatrice from society. Beatrice has also been under the influence of her father, which in return further separates her from others: “You have heard of this daughter, whom all the young men in Padua are wild about, though not half a dozen have ever had the good hap to see her face” (Hawthorne para. 27). Alternatively, Giovanni and Beatrice are poisoned, which acts as a barrier separating them from humanity. Giovanni is affected

“Every time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all woman” -Maya Angelou. A story that shows a similar content is titled, “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros. It is a story about a girl with six brothers yet tells herself that the is an only daughter. Cisneros has had hardships of her own when she was growing up with her family because she thought that she wasn’t being recognized by her father as much. Corresponding with the story, “N.O” is a song that’s been written, preformed, and sung by BTS. Their video was released on September 10, 2013: just a few months after their debut. It shows the struggles students face in society and that they try to fit in, and yet they discover that there’s more that they can achieve. The video and book are both have similar themes that are presented differently.

They cannot publicly show their affection, but there is more hope for them than there was for Paul. Giovanni’s room acts as a place of refuge and as cover from the judgement of the outside world. It is a safe haven where David can be his true self because the privacy allows Giovanni and him to live a life that would be impossible outside of the room’s boundaries.The affection that happens in Giovanni’s room is not something that can happen in the public eye. The room enables the possibility of homosexual love, but it also contains it inside the four walls.When Giovanni thought he heard people coming he would stiffen and remain silent until “whatever seemed to threaten our safety had moved away” (Baldwin, 86). For a time, David and Giovanni are able to experience a relationship, but it only occurs in the confines of the dark. Eventually David feels frustrated by the limited future of the relationship questioning, “What kind of life can we have in this room?–this filthy little room. What kind of life can two men have together, anyway?” (Baldwin, 142) For a time, the room helps the two transgress societal norms that define what their relationship should be: a friendship. Instead, it gives them the opportunity to experience love, even if only because of the dark. David can finally experience the thoughts and emotions he has had to deny everywhere else and becomes so

The word love can mean many things. Love can be an object, emotion, and a life. However, love could lead to a loss of power, prosperity, and status. In the literary work “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, the readers are introduced to a tragic love story. In this play, readers are also shown the different perspectives of love and the many downfalls it could lead to. The central theme of this work is the recklessness of love. The theme is significant because it is shown throughout the whole story and it’s a strong force that takes place of all the other emotions and values. In this play, Shakespeare uses characters to present different aspects of love. In addition, Nurse, Mercutio, and Romeo completely show what actual love is and what it is like to lose it due to their experiences.

At the beginning of the story, Hawthorne establishes a dark mood when describing the ancestors who were occupying the mansion “pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno” (Hawthorne). This allusion refers to the “Divine Comedy” and the Inferno, which tells Dante’s journey through hell. This story also alludes to the tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, in which the prominent figures disobey God and they end up being cast out of Eden, the paradise. One of the parts in the story of “Rappaccini’s Daughter” that alludes the tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is when Giovanni thinks “was this garden, then, the Eden of the present world?” about Rappaccini’s botanical garden (Hawthorne). In addition, Beatrice can be associated with Eve because, despite the fact that her body is corrupted by her father and becomes poisonous, her soul always remains pure and clean. With her beauty, Beatrice enamors Giovanni and poisons him slowly unintentionally with her breath and essence of the violet flower. Beatrice does not know that she can poison Giovanni because she is imprisoned in the garden, as Beatrice says to Giovanni, “the effect of my father’s fatal love of science, which estranged me from all society of my kind” (Hawthorne). Giovanni is not really in love with Beatrice because he convinces her to drink the

His love is so great it would, ?grow vaster than empires? (11-12). Although Marvell tries to equate his love for his mistress to plants, his argument is undermined by a plant?s biological incapableness of contemplation and reciprocal physical affection. Nevertheless, the speaker continues his praises of love, but points out that there is not enough time for further praise because time is passing quickly.

“Rappaccini’s Daughter,” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a short story about how beauty is within and not just physical. When Hawthorne was four years old his father was in an accident and died on the scene, leaving his mother to raise him and his siblings alone. Thus, leading him to have respect for all women, and it is reflected in the story. For instance, the main character Beatrice is this aesthetic, sweet, and a naïve woman and Giovanni is just focused more on her beauty rather than anything else. Moreover, when Giovanni first sees Beatrice in the garden, he describes her as the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen and is just blinded by her beauty. What he doesn’t know is that her father, Doctor Rappaccini, is a scientist who cares more about science more than anything else. The place where Beatrice and Giovanni spend all their time together is in the garden, which represents loneliness’, and unfortunately one of the main characters will learn that the hard way. When Giovanni meets Professor Baglioni, a professor of medicine—who is Rappaccini’s rival— he helps him get Beatrice, or at least that’s what Giovanni thinks. However, what Giovanni does not know is that “the love of his life” isn’t who he thinks she is.