Rappaccini Daughter

In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories, he creates characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a more allegorical meaning. In the story Rappaccini’s Daughter he uses Beatrice as a carrier of the deadly poison. In Young Goodman Brown, Faith is the character that is lost to the Devil. In viewing each of the characters in Rappaccini’s Daughter, I am led to believe that none of …

…within the story. If one would like to say the characters are evil, then so be it. Me? I say it is due to elements of evil that go beyond the characters. Works Cited Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Eds. Nina Baym, Wayne Franklin, Ronald Gottesman, Laurence B. Holland. David Kalstone, Jerome Klinkowitz, Arnold Krupat, Francis Murphy, Hershel Parker, William Pritchard, Patricia Wallace. 5th ed. New York: Norton, 1998. 1286-1305.