Monday, January 31, 2011
Rappaccini's Daughter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
In today's class, we watched the end of the short story "Rappaccini's Daughter" and discussed what Hawthorne wanted to tell us with this story. As he was a transcendentalist, he criticized science as he shows the result of Dr. Rappaccini's work and experiments which caused his own daughter's poisoning. Furthermore he says that everyone in the world can do what he/she wants? What he meant by saying this is not really clear for me...
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ReplyDeleteHawthorne's problem with Rappaccini was not that he was a scientist, but that he was a scientist who experimented on his own daughter in apparent disregard for her feelings as a human being. Then, he did the same thing to Giovanni. He placed himself in the position of being god to these two young people. Romantic problems with science did not go so far as a universal condemnation; they thought that a cold, purely logical explanation for the universe was not sufficient.
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