Rappaccinis Daughter part 1 and part 2

Rappaccinis Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a very difficult story to get through. It is a story about a young man, Givoanni Guscanti. He is a complex character but not nearly as complex as the young poisinus Beatrice.

I noticed while reading that there are many religious and biblical references. There is the idea of an Adam and Eve story going on within this story. Before I get too far into other ideas, I will explain more about the story.

Young Giovanni is staying in a place with an amazing view of a garden, its like a secert garden that only few know about. It is taken care of by Doctor Rappaccini, this is where our story begins. Rappaccini is a mystery to the world around him and he is a mystery to Giovanni. His daughter, Beatrice is even more of a mystery, esrecially when Givovanni needs to differenciate what he sees to be truth or what he may be making up in his mind. THe plants in the garden seem to be poisinous as Beatrice is playing with them and a few drops appear to kill a lizard and some insects. This can only be a figmant of Giovannis imagination, why would such a plant harm an animal and not Beatrice? Giovanni is seeign things, so he thinks.

Bagleoni, a friend of Giovannis father, is skeptical about Rapaccinni and the way that Giovanni has taken an interest to his daughter. Bagleoni has warned Giovanni many tiems to stay out of the garden and that how ever mysterious and appealing Beatrice may be, she is not good news. Lizabetta shows Giovanni into the garden and all goes down. He is mesmerized by Beatrices beauty which blinds him from seeing the ugly truth.

He soon realizes, with the help of Bagleoni, that Beatrice is indeed poisinus and that he himself is as well. Tragicly ending in a Romeo and Juliet- esque way Beatrice dies from taking the potion that Bagleoni offers Giovanni.

While reading this story I was very interested in aLL the ideas coming out through it. There are many different ways to precieve what you have read and what goes on through the text. Who is at fault here? Who is in the wrong, Rappaccini or Bagleoni?