Biotechnology and Hawthorne

In todays world, the field of biotechnology is continuously go on day by day. Scientists develop more and more shipway to help and possibly harm us with their ever change magnitude knowledge and examineation. Nathaniel Hawthornes short paper, Rappaccinis Daughter, highlights todays controversial topic of genetically modified plants through its own twisted plot. Rappaccinis Daughter is the story of a mad scientist, Giacomo Rappaccini, who works by himself on his experiment with poisonous plants. Giovanni Guasconti, a young student living pay off next door keep an eye ons from his window the scientists beautiful daughter, Beatrice, and notices that while she lovingly tends to the garden , her fathers demeanor was that of one walking among malignant influences?[which] would wreak upon him some terrible fatality (Hawthorne, 189). Giovanni sneaks into the garden to see Beatrice, and the two soon fall in love. He is unaware of the fact that the poisonous garden is what keeps Beatrice alive, and every day he is absorbing the poisons and becoming immune to them. Giovanni is warned by his mentor, professor Baglioni that Rappaccini is up to no good, but ignores these warnings as he is a jester in love. After some time, he begins to realize the personal effects that his frequent visits to the garden are having on him.

He finds that he cannot interact with other life without causing it to be change by the poison now instilled in him. He finds Professor Baglioni again, who gives him a vial containing what is thought to be an antidote to the poisons of the garden. He then returns to Beatrice and blames her for making him as hateful, as ugly, as yucky and deadly a creature as [herself] (Hawthorne, 207). Beatrice tries to defend herself, formulation that it is her fathers fatal science (Hawthorne, 207) which has done this to him, and that she would never do such a thing to him knowingly. Convinced by her sincerity, he tells her of the cure he has been given, and she volunteers to drink it... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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