Compare and contrast the theme of rapaciousness daughter with the theme of young Goodman brown
Introduction
This report has been prepared on the comparison and contrast of the stories of Rappaccini’s daughter with the unique theme of young Goodman brown. The Rappacini’s Daughter is a fictional story that talks about a unique story character. In this story, Hawthorne describes the story in a unique manner about the Rappaccini’s daughter.
Giovanni Guasconti is a young man who comes from southern Italy to Padua to complete his education at a university.
He stays in a high, gloomy room which is located in the old mansion. This room overlooks a beautiful garden that belongs to a doctor named Signor Giacomo Rappaccini.
The doctor would plan medical plants in his garden. There were many interesting plants in his garden, but one of them was a scrub that was huge in size. It has purple blossoms that were set on the marble vase (Hawthorne N, 2012).
Comparison and Contrast
This story is based on the love, professional attitude, and selfish attitude of the three individuals. The intention of such men had killed the innocent life of the young girl. The young guy could always see the doctor working hard in his garden.
However, whenever the doctor comes near the purple flower he puts on a mask, indicating that it is a harmful flower. His daughter was Beatrice, and he instructed her to take care of the purple collared flower. The same night, Giovanni dreams of the girl along with the flower and tries to visualize the similarity between the flower and the beautiful girl.
Govan meets an ild friend of the doctor and learns more about the doctor and his daughter. He was said that the doctor was a qualified gentleman and so was his daughter. She had immense knowledge about the tasks and would do everything to help her father in his work.
Young men would always find her quite wild, and she had the knowledge that will fit her into the chair of a professor. On the way back home Giovanno sends bouquet to Beatrice. While sitting at the garden he sees that Beatrice plucks the flower and few drops of the moisture falls on a lizard, killing it instantly.
She cares for the flower more than the live of the insects that is being killed due to the moisture that was present on the flower. Such a scene surprises him, and he wonders what makes him to do such a thing. He passes on the bouquet to her, which she receives after thanking him.
He doesn’t go to window for many days and avoid seeing her as he fears about seeing the reaction of his new found love. Throughout these days he finds new methods through which he can avoid seeing his new girlfriend. One day, he meets Rappaccinin and wonders why he is hurry.
The doctor’s old friend tells Giovanni that he has become a part of the experiment. However, Giovanni does not accept this fact, and he decides to break off with the old professor. While returning home, Giovanni stops by Lisabetta, an old woman who showed him the room.
She leads to the garden secret and he follows in with her to know the secret of the garden. He was interested in getting more details about the secret flower in the garden.
He meets Beatrice in the garden and talks to her. During the conversation, she stated that she knew nothing about her father’s experiment and suggested he believe what he would see through his eyes.
On the way, he sees the beautiful purple flower and wants to pluck it, but she avoids him. Her father is watching this from the other side of the room. The next day, he has pain in his hand and a purple mark on his finger.
He visits the doctor who tells him that he has been poisoned. Beatrice has been poisoned from birth and this was the reason why the thing that was touched by her also becomes poisonous. The doctor gives him medicine and asks him to treat Beatrice with the same medicine.
On the way back, he touches a spider and sees that the insects dies due to the touch, now that he knows that he has been poisoned and the doctor was right (Hawthorne N, 2010).
He meets Beatrice and talks about the incidences. She confesses that she knew about her father’s plan and the effects of the same. She is being cursed by Giovanni for not communicating the fact with him. She is shocked and hurt by his words, and agrees to drink the medicine that was brought by him.
Her father states that the medicine was not a curse but a gift that was meant to benefit her. The poison that was present in her body was already a part of her life and the anecdote in fact killed her rather than saving her live.
Analysis
The story reveals the ambitious nature of three individuals the doctor, the young man, and the doctor’s friend. Medicine that was developed by the doctor was poisonous in nature and it was meant to save the love of the people, however it was poisonous in nature and thus the doctor was very careful about the same.
The young were in love and would anything to believe the best thing for his love. Instead of saving her live he gives her the medicine that was meant to save her life.
In this story, it has been stated that he didn’t analyse the situation and did everything that was instructed of him. This, instead of saving his new friend’s life, had killed her. Besides this, he also reveals his selfish nature as he doesn’t believe what she says about the flower and her father’s experiment.
Besides this the father also experiments the medicines on this daughter and doesn’t think about her future. The same thing is being done by the doctor. In fact every ne had a veil intention in the act, and this had actually killed Beatrice.
The girl was innocent and would everything that was instructed by her father and then by her new found love. Instead of leading a happy and peaceful life, she ultimately died because everyone used her for their own personal reasons (Hawthorne N, 2012).
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