Rappaccini's Daughter In the story Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the daughter Beatrice had a connection with the garden. She was the daughter of a scientist Signor Giacomo Rappaccini. She is a beautiful, kind, and innocent young woman. She has a connection with the ...

In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories, he creates characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a more allegorical meaning. In the story Rappaccini's Daughter he uses Beatrice as a carrier of the deadly poison. In Young Goodman Brown, Faith is the character tha...