Rappaccini's Daughter

“If eyes were made for seeing,/ Then Beauty is its own excuse for being” (Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Rhodora). The eyes are not to be trusted. Human beings perceive the world mainly by sight; it is our most trusted sense. In fact, if you try to convince someone (especially an older person) of something spectacular, you will often hear him say, “I’ll believe it when I see it”. Does sight deserve this kind of …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…of his daughter. He too, though, is still a scientist caught up in a bitter rivalry. The biggest masquerade of all being Baglioni’s, posing as a guide for Giovanni, who destroys two young people in his plot to get back at his archrival, Rappaccini. Though all the narration describes each character and setting in great detail, it teaches us that our nature, and not our senses are best equipped to give us the truth.