"I have locked myself in a dungeon and I can't find the keys to get out"
             In the short story Rappaccinni's daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorn sets the story in a room of an old mansion that overlooks a garden. The garden is owned by a mad scientist named Rappaccinni who has been working on an experiment for quite some time that has been shunned by the public eye. The room in the mansion is occupied by a man named Giovanni who moved from Padua in pursuit of his studies. As the story unfolds, Giovanni meets Rappaccinni's beautiful daughter named Beatrice one day after carefully inspecting the garden from his room. Giovanni observed that almost everything that came into contact with Beatrice would die except for the beautiful flowers in Rappaccinni's garden. In an attempt to try and save Beatrice, who has been cursed with the same poison as the flowers, Giovanni and Baglioni created an antidote that will cure the disease that her father has stricken upon her. When the antidote fails, and she dies, Gionvanni feels as if he has failed, but in reality helping her die may have been the only escape for her from her fathers evil garden, and he truly was her key.
             Giovanni's initial reaction to Rappaccini is very disturbing. He seems to be connected to everything corrupt as the narrator notes that "the man's demeanor was that of one walking among malignant influences, such as savage beasts, or deadly snakes, or evil spirits, which, should he allow them one moment of license, would wreak upon him some terrible fatality."
             Meanwhile Giovanni and Beatrice are clearly love-struck by each other. Giovanni has never seen a woman with more beauty and grace. On the other hand, it is possible that Beatrice has never seen a man other than her father. Nonetheless Giovanni cannot stop thinking about the lovely Beatrice. Little d
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