Young Goodman Brown and Other Hawthorne Short Stories

Is Rappaccini's daughter a tragic story ? or daughter / father relationship

Is Rappaccini's daughter a tragic story ? or daughter / father relationship

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I think it is a tragic story that involves a father/daughter relationship. The story’s tragic end demonstrates that Beatrice’s death is the product, at least in part, of the ambitions of her father who is a callous scientist. In the end he offered his daughter up as a scientific experiment.