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 …showed first 75 words of 8635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 8635 total…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.