Rappaccini’s daughter was set in Padua, Italy, focusing primarily on two fictional locations within the city. The …show more content…
So internalized were these themes of isolation in him that he feared becoming his father, permanently cut off from society in the almshouse until death. It is for this reason that the island setting holds so much significance to the story, because in leaving the island, the narrator believes he can escape his isolation. In leaving the island setting, “He thinks he will escape the poverty and rejection and death associated with his father” (Dance