ADP/BSc/BA English Short Stories Notes Rappaccini’s Daughter Pdf
RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER by Nathanial Hawthorne
- Discuss the story as a fantasy?
- What is the craze of Dr.Rappaccini?
- Rappaccini is a scientist who loves science more than human beings. Discuss.
- How did Rappaccini make his daughter poisonous?
- Why does Beatrice say to the magnificent: “For the first time I had forgotten you”?
- How does Beatrice become poisonous? OR How does Beatrice love -guns were poisonous plants?
- What is the sister plant?
- What is the chief treasure which Dr. Rappaccini wants to leave for his daughter?
- Write down the character sketch of Giovanni?
- What is Giovanni’s role in the story?
- Giovanni is no more than a pawn on the chess board of Dr. Rappaccini’s research, comment.
- Giovanni falls in Rappaccini’s net involuntarily but with disastrous results. Elaborate.
- Poison works through Giovanni’s system slowly but surely. How?
- What is the true nature of Giovanni’s problem and how does he get into it?
- When does Giovanni discover that he has been poisoned and with what result?
- “At least,” he thought “her poison is not yet entered into my system?
- “I am not flower to die in her lap” Explain?
- When and why does Giovanni in his address to Beatrice call Dr. Rappaccini ‘Your awful father”?
- Discuss the relationship of Beatrice-Giovanni out of hatred and love?
- Did the antidote work which Baglioni gave to Giovanni?
- Was Baglioni responsible for the death of Beatrice?
- How did Baglioni help Giovanni?
- Write a brief character – sketch of Baglioni?
A Single Multi-Answer For All Rappaccini’s Daughter Important Questions
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“Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a fantastic and impractical idea – a type of science fiction featuring magical or supernatural events. It is a pearly tear in decay disease.
[Rappaccini]: – When I find myself in the company of Rappaccini, I feel him like a sick experimentalist who has strayed by mistake into a zone of craze where nothing is except greed, false ambitions, destruction, and poison. He, standing on the shoulders of giant plants, drags his daughter and her lover by understanding, kicking, and screaming into very poisonous flowers. His motto is: “Dear to one another and fearful to all besides!” and “That he cares more for science than for mankind. Whatever else was dearest to him.”
[Beatrice:] Mild and meek Beatrice is the queen of curds and cream. She was born with the very day of the poisonous purple sister plant standing in the fountain jar “Which to her is as the breath of life.” It is a chief treasure from her butcher father. When Giovanni’s pair of eyes drew her classic face, she at once says out of sisterly love “For the first time in my life, I had forgotten you.” Giovanni never touches this beautiful palace of poison from neck down to neck up.
[Giovanni:) The destructive dream of love became the working week, Sunday rest, his noon, his midnight, his talk, and his soul which full-blown him a poisonous demon. His healthy colour, his handful of shrunken flowers, his breath smell, and the death of insects assure him that he is discovered venomous. His poison becomes his problem for which he is not ready to admit, “Her poison is not yet entered into my system. I am not a flower to die in her lap.” Giovanni accuses Beatrice out of hatred and love, and Beatrice accuses her father. Then Giovanni presents an advised antidote which he got from saint scientist Prof. Baglioni, “It contains elements the most opposite to those by which your awful father has brought this fate upon you and me.”
She drinks antidote and death takes her by heart and it makes the all ugly including saint, scientist, and supporter. Thus, yielding a pawn of poison, the devil played chess with humans, and the poor king lost his senses and the queen too. There is no difference between scientists and witches if they boast hunger, hate, hunt, horror, and harm. On account of this hot discussion, it is understandable that.
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