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“Was this garden, then, the Eden of the present World?” The short story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, by the American romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne, begins with suggestions that the garden of the hands of Signor Giacomo Rappaccini symbolizes the Garden of Eden. It is in this garden that symbolizes Beatrice as the eve in the Garden of Eden. Beating relates to Eve because she is also a sinner, she is born with original sin, she’s poisonous. Beatrice also attracts and persuades Giovanni, who represents Adam. This is one of the ways in which Hawthorne suggests that everyone is said to have committed a sin. Because links can be established between the main characters and sinful acts, it is said that this work of Hawthorne is a puritanical allegory, pointing at the sin in everyone. The “Garden of Eden” is full of plants and flowers, all cultivated by Doctor Rappaccini. Rappaccini offers a