Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter

In the 50 minutes American Lit. class, we "listened"the story of Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Beatrice was a lonely and innocent young girl who was isolated from the society by her father's stupid experiment on her. Rappaccini raised a poisonous plant and got into his daughter, Beatrice body. Her little breath can make insects or other livings died. The poison had already been in her body for years, so Beatrice died because she took the powerful antidote. To Rappaccini, the final result of his experiment was his own daughter died. I wondered is that the result that Rappaccini really want?

I was surprised by the plot of the story!Rappaccini didn't do a great job on his role of father. He hurted his own daughter because of his own fervor of his science.