Rappaccini’s Daughter
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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

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter Symbols

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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