#Rapaccini’s daughter

[edettethegreat]

In honor of the end of my second year of college, here’s a short summary of every short story, book, and play I had to read:

(this is part 2 of this post)

[ trigger warning: mentions of both abortion and rape somewhere in here. Probably also murder. Because yeah these are literature class assignments, what sorta subject matter do you expect? ]

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short stories

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The Tell-Tale Heart-

Narrator, while killing a guy: I am definitely not crazy.

Cops: hey we heard some noise here, is everything alright?

Narrator: haha yeah I definitely didn’t kill a guy!

Cops: oh that’s good, well have a good night sir!

Narrator:…

Narrator: ok OK you caught me I killed him!! I killed him because his eye was just too weird!!

Cops: I think.. this guy might be crazy.

Rapaccini’s Daughter-

Giovanni: wow that girl next door is so pretty

Beatrice: *touches a lizard, which instantly dies*

Giovanni: that was kinda creepy actually.

Beatrice: *smiles at him*

Giovanni: nevermind she’s still pretty

Bartleby the Scrivener-

Narrator: hey would you mind doing your job for once

Bartleby: I’d prefer not to.

Narrator: that’s fair have a nice day

Lamb to the Slaughter-

Mary’s Husband: so I may have cheated on you…

Mary: oh, that’s perfectly fine

Mary, killing him: I don’t mind at all actually.

The Necklace-

Mathilde: oh no I lost my friend’s diamond necklace!!

Mathilde: *spends the next ten years working to pay off the debt*

Her friend: You idiot. You absolutely buffoon. That necklace was fake.

The Story of an Hour-

Loise: it sure sucks that my husband died, but it doesn’t suck enough to trigger my fatal heart condition

Her husband: ‘Sup! I’m alive!

Louise: Oh no! My heart! *dies*

Hansel and Gretel-

Hansel: wow our parents really hate us don’t they

Gretel: well I mean they abandoned us in the woods so they wouldn’t have to feed us anymore. So. Figure it out for yourself.

Little Red Cap-

Little red-cap: I would absolutely love to murder a wolf.

Rumplestiltskin-

Rumplestiltskin: I bet you’ll never guess my name!

Rumplestiltskin: It’s Rumplestiltskin by the way.

The Queen: is it by any chance Rumplestiltskin?

Rumplestiltskin: asdjkhskl WHAT how did you guess??

The Dog and the Sparrow-

Sparrow: hey please don’t kill my friend Dog over there

Carter: hey how about you shut up. *kills the Dog*

Sparrow:…

Sparrow: I see. So you have chosen Death. *proceeds to torture and kill this man, as he should*

Young Goodman Brown-

Goodman: I had this really weird dream and now I gotta be suspicious of my wife for the rest of my life

The Lottery-

Townspeople: Ritualized murder is fun!!

A Good Man is Hard to Find-

Grandma: you seem like such a sweet young man. Please don’t kill my whole family.

The Misfit, actively killing them: you seem like a sweet old lady. Sorry I’m gonna kill you now. *kills her too*

The Smallest Woman in the World-

Everyone: wow that woman sure is small!

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings-

Priest: yeah that’s not an angel, that’s just a dude with wings.

Everyone in the town: Shut up— that totally is an angel!

The old man with the wings: *just wants to be left alone. Is Not having a good time*

The Guest-

Daru: On the one hand, ACAB. On the other hand, I don’t condone murder. So it seems I find myself in a moral conundrum.

Hills Like White Elephants-

The girl: I may or may not want an abortion.

The guy: so… which is it?

The girl: guess.

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books

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin-

Tom: well, after all of the things I’ve been through, I am now dying.

Everyone, including the audience: NO NO don’t you dare die DON’T-

Tom: *dies*

Everyone: *crying, sobbing, screaming, overall not having a very good times*

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas-

Frederick Douglas: …and that’s how learning to read and write helped me gain my freedom!

Walden-

Thoreau: I’m not like other girls. I live in the woods.

The Stranger-

Meursault: I killed a guy because it was very hot outside.

The court: The’s the dumbest reason to commit murder we’ve ever heard.

Meursault: huh it seems they’ve given me the death penalty. Why’s they do that? That’s so unfair.

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plays

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Oleanna-

Carol: hey I see you’ve given me a failing grade.

John: Yes, that’s because you didn’t understand the material. But I can tutor you to help you get a better mark on the final.

Carol: Or, alternatively, I could accuse you of rape and pass by default?

John: wait. what.

Andre’s Mother-

Cal: It sure is tragic that Andre died, isn’t it?

Andre’s Mother: …

Cal: great talk we’ve had here today.

A View from the Bridge-

Eddie: guys, I think Rodolpho is gay.

Everyone: what makes you say that?

Eddie: well he’s just so pretty…

Eddie: …and kissable..

Eddie: y’know. He looks like the sort of guy I’d wanna kiss

Everyone: …

Dutchman-

Lula: hi stranger. I’m gonna aggressively flirt with you now.

Clay: haha well this is kinda weird, but at least you’re not a serial killer or something, right?

Lula, while stabbing him: lmao yeah that would be pretty messed up!

Topdog/Underdog-

Lincoln: hey isn’t it messed up that our parents names us Lincoln and Booth? It’s like they want you to kill me or something—

Booth, killing him: yeah that would be pretty messed up, wouldn’t it?

[ravenkinnie]

get to know me better

i was tagged by @rapaccini ty!!

name/nickname: patrycja

middle name: none

pronouns: they/she

gender: nb

sexual orientation: lesbian babeyyy

age: 27

zodiac sign: scorpio

birthday: november

relationship status: I have a wife who eats people

work field/studying: I have a boring emails and meetings job acc <3

favorite colors: red and black

some of your favorite movies: secretary, the blackcoats daughter, pearl, the descent, three billboards outside ebbing missouri

some of your favorite bands: sir chloe, hole, london after midnight, of monsters and men, inkubus sukkubus

some of your favorite singers: allie x, emily from night club her high pitch scratches my brain, poppy, tove lo, ari mason

some of your favorite books: hangsaman by shirley jackson, white is for witching by helen oyeyemi, bunny by mona awad, the particular sadness of lemon cake by aimee bender, tender by sofia samatar

some of your favorite songs: something to believe in//eat the acid by kesha, lucretia my reflection by sisters of mercy, blue monday by new order, love like ghosts by lord huron, mateo by tove lo

some of your favorite actors/actresses: I don't really stan anyone because they always turn out to be supporting polansky or sth - and I'm too jealous of successful hot people to be a stan - but I've watched many movies just because the actress was hot and will continue to do so

some of your favorite tv shows: bojack horseman, greys anatomy - private practice - station 19 fused universes yes I watched all three, brand new cherry flavour, interview with the vampire, sex and the city

celebrity crushes: I don't crush really but I saw how tall hozier is irl and ykw!! would

tagging @lullabyes22-blog @dubiousdisco @aeolid-funkt @jiyuu-no-senshii @milfzatannaz

[bingwriterxo]

Question bing! What piece of literature (could be Shakespeare or any other) does reader love? And I mean is there a particular story that she just makes her filled to the brim with romantic feelings? What gets her all giddy inside? Romeo and Juliet is often looked at by some people as romantic, which was why I was wondering. What does reader classify as romantic?

as R mentioned in part 5, she’s a big Nathaniel Hawthorne fan (as am i). R definitely loves Rapaccini’s Daughter and Artist of the Beautiful, though the latter more so

i think R would love the story Ligeia, by Poe. it’s just so beautiful, and it’s filled with want. it’s not the happiest of stories, but…oh well

[the-golden-ghost]

Actually if you REALLY want weird-and-hard-hitting literature you gotta go for short stories

[improvisedvillainy]

y'know if i had a magic poison girlfriend i would simply love her the way she is and happily live with her in our beautiful poison garden instead of trying to "cure" her like a fucking idiot.

[marzipanandminutiae]

the Athena Club as Vines

Diana

Justine (alternately, this)

Catherine

Mary

Beatrice (yes, all of them)

[atundratoadstool]

atundratoadstool’s 10-point Rating Scale for How Dangerous Your Old Timey Fictional Science Is

1 - John Watson (Sherlock Holmes stories): You are 110% sane, nice, and not doing anything awful. You might even be reining in the awfulness of your douchey roommate now and again; maybe he'll chill out now that he's off the coke.

2 - Jack Seward (Dracula): You sometimes sort of want to do some really unethical human experiments involving feeding live kittens to people, but then vampires happen and you drop that idea.

3 - Giacomo Rappaccini (“Rappaccini’s Daughter”): Hey. You know what's a great idea? Making people poisonous... like plants! Now you can just make a poisonous-plant-daughter and not have to worry about her dating. Wait. No. That's dumb. Your bad.

4 - Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein): You dropped out of college your freshman year to build a 7' ugly corpsebaby. Your intentions weren't malevolent, but you were woefully unprepared for fatherhood and your complete lack of parental responsibility had some serious consequences.

5 - Griffin (The Invisible Man): You're kind of a dick. Actually, you're really a dick. An invisible dick. If you were only a competent invisible dick, you might be able to enact your plans for terroristic, murderous world domination. As it stands, however, your propensity for murder is limited by how hungry, cold, naked, and unable to afford rent you are.

6 - Henry Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde): You're like the guy who is a great person most of the time but becomes an abusive psychopath when he's had too many beers. This wouldn't be so bad if you hadn't made and continually imbibed the ultimate "too many beers" potion.

7 - Herbert West (Herbert West: Re-Animator): You think there was a noble motive in all this somewhere, but it seems to have gotten somewhat distorted over all the years of you and your boyfriend digging up corpses and letting them turn into rampaging crazy murder zombies.

8 - Sidney Atherton (The Beetle): You're just a guy, trying to get a girl's attention, making an unstoppable death gas to further the murderous colonial mission of the British Empire in your spare time. Nobody seems to actually notice that you are a looming danger to all mankind because they're too worried about suspicious foreigners.

9 - Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau): You cut up animals until they're people and then make them participate in weird people-animal cultic indoctrination as you megalomaniacally reign over them like a God. Maybe if you could actually make some people-people friends, this wouldn't have happened.

10 - Dr. Raymond (The Great God Pan): Orphans you raise belong to you, and it's chill to use them as subjects for neurological experiments to break the veil between our world and that of the unspeakable gods of the deep.

[nikisbookblog]

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss

“Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter,…

[lunahras]

is

is that cover in reference to the yellow wallpaper????

A rare book, apparently (over $800 on Amazon): The Girls Who Talked to Ghosts, The Story of Katie and Margaretta Fox by I. G. Edmonds.

Communication with the spirits: vintage spiritualism imagery.

Shiver in wonderment: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

[disregardcanon]

i was going through a list of some gothic novels because i’ve decided that i’m going to try to read more classic, gothic lit and rapaccini’s daughter came up.... and y’all. we did a nathaniel hawthorne short stories unit in my lit class when i was 16-17 years old and that one was so good? i REALLY enjoyed miss poison and her boyfriend and her dad.

i also am ninety percent sure i had a pjo au with hazel levesque as the title character

[tratshka]

Anyways, tiddies aside, I have been watching M.O.D.O.K on hulu and it was fucking amazing!, not gonna lie i grew fond of Modok since the first “modok  head games” issue, he is just very funny and his dynamic with tony is pure chaos ( the funny and irreverent kind of chaos) and his family really FEELS like a family (not like dooms parallel universe family that he ended up destroying ahgshg).

so watch it, watch it NOW

 https://series-de.online/episodio/marvel-m-o-d-o-k-1x4/

and meanwhile i leave whit an sketch of his daughter, the design is cool and he is mean so naturally is one of my favorite characters now next to monica rapaccini.

[ebonetnoir]

Rapaccini’s Daughter Stationery

Rapaccini's Daughter, Luxurious Handcrafted Stationery Set for Letter Writing, Personalized, 15 Sheets/10 Envelopes, Available in 5 Colors Correspond in style! Send your thoughts and greetings with this distinctively designed Renaissance-style letterhead originally sketched by Christopher van Sichem in 1646. The design depicts a tangled and foreboding foliage reminiscent of the poisonous garden in Nathaniel's Hawthorne's short story Rappaccini's Daughter. The letterhead is printed on ivory parchment paper which has a distinctive and luxurious finish. Envelopes are made from cotton and have a linen texture. I design, craft, and package the stationery in my studio. Thank you for supporting my small business.

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[backwrdblackbrd]

Male and Female Portraits for Rapaccini’s Daughter, a Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Art by Santiago Caruso

[walkingshcdow-a]

Victor’s birth certificate actually names him as “Victor Frankenstein II”. His father had picked out a middle name that would differentiate Victor from his ancestor, but his mother couldn’t remember it and Frankenstein Sr. was out to get a coffee and check on Victor’s older brother, Henry, so she signed off on his name being Victor Frankenstein II, thus sealing Victor’s fate. 

Victor’s father was a lawyer who hoped one or both of his sons would follow in his footsteps. Neither of them did. Victor’s mother was a book editor, who Victor sometimes thought was the only other person in his family as tickled as he was to bear the last name “Frankenstein”. 

Victor is a middle child. His older brother, Henry, passed away from hypothermia when they were children (and the blame has landed on Victor’s shoulders from both his parents and his inner critic). Henry was musically gifted he played half a dozen instruments and composed music in his teenage years. If he had lived (and I’m considering verses where he does), Henry would have gone on to do sound design. Victor’s younger sister, Liz, is a little less than a year younger than him and while he idolized/idolizes Henry, Liz and Victor are best friends in a different way. They went through a lot together, as siblings do, but especially after Henry’s death. Liz took over their father’s law firm. She has a two year old daughter, Isabella, who she is raising on her own. 

The Frankensteins own property in Geneva - what is affectionately called “Castle Frankenstein”. The locals and tourist industry also call it Castle Frankenstein, but it’s essentially a very large manor house on Lake Geneva. Victor’s family allowed tours to come through once the children were grown. After his father’s death, VIctor inherits Castle Frankenstein and he allows the tours to continue for much of the year (it’s a handy source of income!), with the knowledge that one day, he will shut the doors to the public and make a home there. 

Victor’s official job description is Director of Clinical Research at FinneCorp. Victor has worked as a researcher there for much of his career in the private sector. He has also worked in university settings with no hope of getting tenure, even though he’s beloved as a lecturer. He has written a number of papers, published a lot of research to major journals, and still has to fight the stigma of being named Dr. Victor Frankenstein. 

Victor holds both an MD and a PhD in biochemical engineering. He completed his medical training and residency and MD program, but he left the medical field to pursue his PhD because he had no interest in being polite to patients and he got two strikes against him for misconduct that mostly involved a lot of yelling and dramatics. 

Victor stole his ancestor’s journal from a museum display in London when he was home visiting his family during a break in college. He very carefully planned the heist and, in the end, it was just... easier than expected. It’s his prized possession and he’s spent much of his adult life trying to riddle out the ciphers and ramblings in untidy cursive and 19th century German and French. In some verses, he surrenders the journal to his wife, Jane ( @professor-of-predators​ ), for safe keeping. 

Victor has bipolar II disorder and PTSD. He is on medication, but not in therapy. He does pretty well with it and it’s not something the average, casual bystander notices. Even people close to Victor might not make a clinical diagnosis and are more likely to chalk up his behavior to “That’s just Victor”. 

Victor is a fantastic cook. He really enjoys it - kitchen chemistry! - and makes a lot of delicious, hearty meals. People are usually surprised to know this about him because he’s been known to slam back a Monster and call it lunch. 

Victor speaks English, German, French, and Italian. His Italian isn’t great, but he refuses to admit it’s subpar. 

Victor has a cat named Roomba. He did not name the cat Roomba - his wife did. Initially, he wanted to name it “Rapaccini”. He had names from old science fiction classics and classic lit all picked out for his army of undead cats, but Jane made an executive decision and it stuck. Yes, undead cats. Victor reanimated Roomba and Roomba was the first of many reanimated cats as he works to perfect his technique. 

[rappacciniscompendium]

Hey, this might be a lil dumb question, but i thought it wouldn't hurt to ask just in case. Can the gijinka be a man? I was just wondering since this is based on the tale of 'Rapaccini's Daughter' and made me wonder if the gijinka needs to be specifically a woman?

Hello! It’s not silly at all!No it doesn’t. It needs to be human, and also needs to be fitting in the aesthetic of the project, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it needs to me a girl.It can be a child, a teen or an adult, and it can be male, female or androgynous, as long as the aesthetic is present, and that the gijinka also resembles the plant/fungi selected, it’s all perfect!I hope to have clarified!

[majingojira]

It's run by Monica Rapaccini, so i don't think that A.I.M. is all that noble.

She can be more nuanced than most Scientist Supremes.  I mean, look at her daughter!