Rappacinni

Rappaccini’s Daughter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s interpretation of the Biblical tale of the Garden of Eden written i9n Genesis. The connection between the two accounts lies in Hawthorne’s masterful use of symbolism, diction, and theme. While retelling the original story, he injects malice, rivalry, and corruption to destroy our peaceful image of the Garden of Eden. However, the author of the story retains various themes, establishing a concrete connection between his story …

…the reader be inclined to judge for himself, we refer him to certain black-letter tracts on both sides, preserved in the medical department of the University of Padua.” Once again this is similar to the Bible in that the black-letter tracts are passages in the Bible which one may refer to in order to form one’s own opinion of whether the good or the evil has the advantage in the competition of the world.