Rappaccini's Daughter

Series: American short story

Duration: 57 min.

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Perspec

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Based on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in 18th century Italy, about a young man's romantic entanglement with a beautiful, forbidden woman in a poisonous garden., . A young man tries to free a beautiful girl held captive in a poisonous garden with tragic results. Based on the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Complete Record: , Italy's distant past is the setting for this romantic story of a young man's entanglement with a strangely beautiful woman in a poisonous garden. In his attempt to free her from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on his life, he unwittingly destroys her. The story dramatizes two of Hawthorne's major themes: the horror of one person's interference with another's soul and the danger of experimenting with nature. , . A young man tries to free a beautiful girl held captive in a poisonous garden with tragic results. Based on the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.