Nathaniel Hawthorne through his writings employs a plethora of literary devices, in this instance, in his writings of “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and “The Birth-Mark”. Through both of these short stories the reader sees Hawthorne exhibit literary devices that are relative to his beliefs, in that of, nature, both human and floral, and the caution of science overpowering the aspects of nature, and the consequences of this superiority. Hawthorne had a very deep and intimate connection with nature, in the aspects of, floral nature. This connection is derived from his ideal that nature, in itself, provided a spiritual connection with God. This ideal corresponds with certain beliefs of Transcendentalists, allowing some readers to infer that Hawthorne could be identified in that community. However, Hawthorne disagreed with certain ideologies contained by the Transcendentalist society, as in, the belief that the world contained no evil. His disbelief is demonstrated in his consistent questioning of human nature’s purity and absence of evil. For example, in ” Rappaccini’s Daughter” the reader witnesses the manipulation of nature and the purity contained in nature by the garden that “is cultivated by the own hands of Signor Giacomo Rappaccini” …show more content…
Not only does Hawthorne detail human nature, he also expands on his connection with nature, in