Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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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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
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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
Works Cited
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Life&Times/BiographicalInfo/Earlylife/Intro...
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/lisle/dial/hawthorne.html
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/TheDiary/Sophia-and-Nathaniel-H...
http://www.egs.edu/library/nathaniel-hawthorne/biography/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/hawthorne.html
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