In today's world, the field of biotechnology is continuously advancing day by day. Scientists develop more and more ways to help and possibly harm us with their ever increasing knowledge and experimentation. Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Rappaccini's Daughter," highlights today's controversial topic of genetically modified plants through its own twisted plot.
Rappaccini's Daughter is the story of a mad scientist, Giacomo Rappaccini, who works by himself on his experiment with poisonous plants. Giovanni Guasconti, a young student living right next door sees from his window the scientist's beautiful daughter, Beatrice, and notices that while she lovingly tends to the garden , her father's "demeanor was that of one walking among malignant influences…[which] would wreak upon him some terrible fatality" (Hawthorne, 189). Giovanni sneaks into the garden to see Beatrice, and the two soon fall in love. He is unaware of the fact that the poisonous garden is what keeps Beatrice alive,......

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Title: Biotechnology And Hawthorne
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