Sunday, October 13, 2013

Why is Beatrice happy to die in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

Beatrice is happy to
die at the end of "" because she feels the pain of having been born poisonous. She has
long endured the solitude that her father, a scientist, created for her, but she has felt worse
about being alone since the arrival of her beloved Giovanni. Knowing that she can never be with
him because she is poisonous has made her increasingly feel the harshness of her fate.


As she is dying she tells her father that she would have rather been loved than
feared, and she is happy to die because the memory of her father's evil actions will pass away
from her after her death. She also recalls the cruel words of Giovanni, in which he tells her
that she has made...

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