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N. Hawthorne "Rappaccini´s Daughter"
Title: N. Hawthorne "Rappaccini´s Daughter"
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N. Hawthorne "Rappaccini´s Daughter"
A Renaissance Tale of Human Hubris
On the Interrelationship of Setting, Theme and Characters
in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
Contents
Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 1
Argumentation...................................................................................................................... 2
1. The Fantastic Elements of the Setting.................................................................. 2
1.1. The Preface as a Foretaste..................................................................... 2
1.2. The Opening Phrase............................................................................... 3
1.3. Rappaccini's Garden.............................................................................. 3
1.3.a. The Garden of Eden and the Fairytale Garden....................... 3
1.3.b. Rappaccini's Garden as a Reflection of his Hubris .................5
2. The Renaissance as Temporal Setting.................................................................. 7
2.1. Direct Hints to the Renaissance............................................................. 7
2.2. The Renaissance as an Age of Radical Changes................................... 8
2.3. Italy
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ngs- schnitte (Stuttgart: Kröner 1992) 514.
79 Ibid., 37 f.
80 Ibid., 38.
81 Frankenstein 213.
82 Tragical misunderstandings are a typical topic of the legend (bagl, gegengift / beatrice böse) ("Mißverständnisse" in Rolf W. Brednich, ed., Enzyklopädie des Märchens, vol.9 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1999) 708).
83 Frankenstein 162.
84 Ibid., 52.
85 "Giftmädchen" in Rolf W. Brednich, ed., Enzyklopädie des Märchens, vol.5 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1987) 1241.
86 "Mensch, Der künstliche" in Elisabeth Frenzel, Motive der Weltliteratur 511.
87 Matthew 17:20. Also in Luke 17:6.
88 1 Corinthians 13:2.
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