Essay on Characterization in Rappaccini’s Daughter -- Rappaccinis Dau

Characterization in Rappaccinis miss The dialogue, action and motivation revolve about the characters in the story (Abrams 32-33). It is the place of this essay to demonstrate the types of characters present in Nathaniel Hawthornes Rappaccinis Daughter, whether smooth or dynamic, whether flat or round, and whether portrayed through showing or telling. The tale takes place in Padua, Italy, where a Naples student named Giovanni Guascanti has relocated in order to attend the medical school there. His modest room is in an old mansion watched over by the landlady, Dame Lisabetta, a vapid character given to religious expletives like, Holy Virgin, signor She seeks to make the customer content with his lodging she answers Giovannis curiosity about a tend next-door No that garden is cultivated by the own hands of signior Giacomo Rappaccini, the famous doctor. . . . As a character, old Lisabetta never develops beyond this hotshot aspect of her personality of trying to make the custo mer happy. Later she sells tuition to Giovanni so that he can enter the garden by a secret entrance. Giovanni in his room can hear the water gurgling in Dr. Rappaccinis garden, from an ancient marble fountain located in the effect of the plants and bushes this sound made him feel as if the fountain were an immortal enliven that sung its song unceasingly and without heeding the vicissitudes around it. . . . Of particular interest to Giovanni is iodine shrub in particular, set in a marble vase in the midst of the pool, that bore a profusion of majestic blossoms, each of which had the splendor and richness of a gem. As striking as the plant of the purple gems is a tall, emaciated, sall... ...ed nature, at the feet of her father and Giovanni. Beatrice, in the course of the story, passes from isolation to hunch and to a full realization of the truth, thus she is very dynamic non static like her father. Giovanni is equally dynamic in developing into a loving person, and then rev erting into an almost hating person because of the acquired malady. WORKS CITED Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th ed. New York Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Rappaccinis Daughter. ElectronicText Center. University of Virginia Library. http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=HawRapp&images=images/modeng& entropy=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public Kazin, Alfred. Introduction. Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York Fawcett Premier, 1966.