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Bezig met laden... Rappaccini's Daughter (1844)door Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A young student comes to the University of Padua to study. Next door to his lodging he discovers a lush garden filled with exotic plants and flowers tended by a man and his beautiful daughter. Giovanni, the student learns from an old friend of his father, a physician who lives in Padua, that the man in the garden, whom he originally took to be the gardener, is really a famous and also somewhat infamous physician Rappaccini, known for his research in plant toxicology and knowledge of poisons. Giovanni is warned to stay away from that garden but smitten by the young woman he sees tending it, he ventures into it and makes her acquaintance. He is warmly received by her, and a romance begins to blossom. It will end with a tragic result. I do enjoy this story. This particular version of it was hard to read at first; the notes mingle with summary mingle with story until it's hard to tell where the summary ends and the story begins. However, I enjoyed the re-read of the story even with the poor formatting choices. Definitely a classic, and still easy enough to read (unlike some classics that haven't aged as well). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A classic tale first published in December 1844. It is the story of a young student of medicine who suffers the consequences of ignoring the warning of his adviser and falls in love with the beautiful Beatrice, confined to a locked garden by her father. Rappaccini's Daughter has all the attributes of Hawthorne's fiction: allegory, symbolism, ambiguity and fantasy. Spell-binding! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Scientific exploration and Ethics have had a contentious relationship throughout history and although the premise of Dr Rappacini's study is impossible - I like to think of this as a Shakespearian science fiction tragedy at best. Capulets with a bunsen burner.
Our characters: poisonous girl, normal boy, mad scientist father and nosy-potentially-dangerous adversarial scientist. Having just read a novel wherein the characters of this story are featured heavily and expanded upon, I thought I'd take a quick gander at the short story. What I find most interesting here is that the main character, Giovani was already a part of the experiment even before physically meeting with Rappacini's daughter. Seniora Lisbetta was much too accommodating.
Without going to deep into the details of this story, science has come a long way from the days when empirical data far outweighed any allegiance to ethical inquiry.
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