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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Published on Nov 30, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tray'von Seaborne

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Characters
Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini: sinister pauda physician who cultivates highly poisonous plants

Giovanni Guasconti: Handsome student that goes to medical school and lives in an apartment

Beatrice: Young and beautiful, The daughter of Giacomo

Dr. Baglioni: Professor of medication, Dr. Rappaccini's enemy

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Setting

In 19th Century in Padua, in Italy

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Internal Conflict

Giacomo vs. Beatirce

External Conflict

Beatirce vs. Self

Symbolism

Alembic: Glass or metal apparatus

Armorial Bearings: coat of arms

Beatice: symbol of purity

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Imagery
Giovanni heard a rustling behind a screen of leaves

He avoided their actual touch, or the direct inhaling of their odors

To see this air of insecurity in a person cultivating a garen

He cultivates with his own hands

Guasconti returned to his lodgings somewhat heated with the wine he qualified

Theme

Storyline has a bit of mind corruption

"looks are deceiving"

Ex. Beatrice is extremely beautiful but yet she's dangerous

Plot Summary

Giovanni Guasconti, a young student of letters at Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini, a scientists who work isolation

Giovanni notices that Beatrice strategey intimate relationship with the poisonous plant grown by her father as well as the withering of fresh flowers & death of an insect when exposed to her skin or breathe

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Plot Summary

Beatrice urges Givanni to look past her poisonous exterior & see her pure & innocence

Rappaccini discovered he himself were poisonous

Givanni bring powerful antidote to Beatrice so that they can be together but kill Beatrice instead of getting rid of the poison

Characteristics of Dark Romantic Age

Writing in the early 1800s, these writers existed during the Romantic period. While they share many viewpoints of the Romantic authors, they do have one main element that separates them form the others

Early Life

Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne

Spent most of his child life in the house, it was known as "Castle Dismal"

When he was about six, a man named Francis Moore taught him in 1810

Education

Hawthorne enrolled in the frontier college of Bowdoin in 1812, making enduring collegues

He departed college in 1835, which he later joined the brotherhood of poor devils

Hawthorne started writing a novel called "Fanshawe", which he showed to publishers and it was declined by many

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Marriage and family

Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in 1842

Sophia was pregnant with Una Hawthorne's first child in March 3, 1844 (They also had two other children Julian and Mary)

Hawthorne and sophia had a joint journal they wrote in everyday about their live

Later Life and Death

Hawthorne took a job at a Salem Custom House, however be became Secretary of the asalem Lyceum

Hawthorne lost his job, so he started working on his famous novel "The Scarlet Letter"

Hawthorne became seriouly ill, weak, and unhappy; however, he passed away in Franklin Pierce's home in New Hampshire (1864)

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Novels

Hawthorne wrote "The House of the Seven Gables" in 1851, which is about a haunted place on the House of Pyndea by Matthew Maule, a sufferer of the Salem witchcraft trials

"The Blithedale Romance" was wrote in 1852, which about tragic love about his coming to his closest access to his novel of observed life

"The Marble Faun" was wrote in 1860, and is bout two young artists and their relationship with a female pointer and a young nobleman