Rappaccini's Daughter
In "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a professor obsessed with "a spiritual love of science" pursues his experiments with his daughter, until he destroys her. In other words he practices unfettered science. Now substitute the word technology or capitalism or globalization or progress or sports or entertainment or law for the world of science. Pursuits not contained by ethics will be destructive.
Beatrice, Rappiccini's daughter, is the alluring beauty filled with life, health and energy. At the same time she is aware of the danger which surrounds her ability to cause pain. Beatrice is the attractive product, instant first love, innocent of the poison which lies under her beauty. Rappaccini's experiments when he falls in love with Rappaccini's daughter, Beatrice, whom he sights in an alluring garden filled with poisonous plants. Her father looks at her as if she were another flower in the garden, the "human sister of those vegetable ones still to be touched with a glove" however; Beatrice can touch and smell the plants Rappaccini avoids. She is a knowledgeable as her father to be a professor herself. She never intended to hurt Giovanni. After a secret visit, he is aware of an ominous mixture of beauty and poisons so much that "hope and dread kept a continual warfare in his beast" Hawthorne comments "Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. We humans pay a price for ignoring ethics. " Giovanni is literally burned when Beatrice touches his arm, leaving "a burning and tingling agony in his hand and a purple print line that of four small fingers" , but he soon forgets the pain in a reverie of Beatrice. was a handsome student at the University of Padua, he becomes the student of on of Dr. In conclusion unfettered capitalism life unfettered science leads to disaster, accomplishing the opposite of the desired effect.
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