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Beatrice lives with her old father and along her life she has grown to be a beautiful daughter. Rappaccini is a single parent. He is a professor in the University of Padua. He is a man who likes doing experiments. Beatrice never knows her mother. Her mother is not explains in the story, Rappacinni is the only person who takes care of his daughter and whom she knows. Beatrice also does not have either brothers or sisters. Considering that fact, it can be seen in the family Beatrice never has conversations with other people except her father. A.1.b. Father-daughter Relationship Through the narrator, the author also depicts Beatrice as an obedient daughter to show the reader that Beatrice is like other children; she likes to help her father and respect his father. Beatrice is an obedient daughter for Rappaccini. She always obeys her father‘s command and helps him whenever he needs her assistance. She will serve him gladly p.183. She also respects him and his experiments. She often joins her father in the garden when he is taking care of the plants. She helps him gathering the flowers and takes care of them well. She is really an obedient daughter who never protests her father‘s will. Beatrice, surely will serve her father gladly whenever Rappaccini needs her assistance. Beatrice will do Rappacinni‘s request without rejection. The fact is supported by the quotation below, ―Here Beatrice,‖ said he latter, ―see how many needful offices require to be done to our chief treasure. Yet, shattered as I am, my life might pay the penalty of approaching it so closely as circumstances demand. Henceforth, I fear, this plant must be consigned to your sole charge.‖ ―and gladly will I undertake i t‖, cried again the rich tones of the young lady,…p.183 The narrator also describes Beatrice‘s feeling to show that Beatrice is like other human who has a feeling although she is a poisonous person. There are many quotations that show Beatrice‘s feeling toward her condition, her father and her love, Giovanni. Beatrice also experiences the lack of paternal love, she expresses her opinion that her father‘s love for science is bigger than his love for her as a daughter, and brought miserable condition to her ―There was an awful doom,‖ she continued, ―the effect of my father‘s fatal love of science, which estranged me from all society of my kind.‖ p. 206. Dr. Rappaccini, a researcher of the medicinal properties of plants, he plays as God with the life of his daughter. Beatrice never gets the real love from her father. Her father has never played his role as the real father to Beatrice. He dedicates his life for his experiment in science. He loves his experiment more than anything in the world, including Beatrice. It can be seen in the quotation: ―I know little of the Signora Beatrice save that Rappaccini is said instructed her deeply in science, and that, young and beautiful as fame reports her, she is already qualified to fill a professor‘s chair.‖ p.186 From the quotation above, we can see that Beatrice is educated to continue her father‘s experiment. Since she is a child, her father has decided that Beatrice will be the one that could continue his experiment. Beatrice is born with all the perfections as a girl. She is beautiful, charming and so clever. Her father realizes that Beatrice is so brilliant. He does not want anyone to exploit Beatrice‘s intelligence. Everything that she does is decided by her father‗s command. Beatrice does not have the right to express her feeling. Her father never wants to know what actually she wants to do; he does not want to know her dreams in her life. Her father also never talks to Beatrice, except about his medicinal plants in the garden. Dr. Rappacini just needs Beatrice when his medicinal plants need her nurse. It is proved in the quotation: ―I know not how this dearly this physician may love his art; but surely there is one object more dear to him. He has a daughter.‖ ―But as for Rappacini, it is said of him and I, who know the man well, can answer for its truth; that he cares infinitely more for science than for mankind. His patients are interesting to him only as subject for some new experiment. He would sacrifice human life, his own among the rest, or whatever else was dearest to him, for the sake of adding so much as a grain of mustard seed to the great heap of his accumulated knowledge.‖ p. 185 From the quotation above, it can be seen that her father loves science more than he loves her daughter. Another point that could be inferred from the quotation is that the narrator sees Beatrice as a human by addressing Beatrice as a subject for Rappacinni‘s experiment. By addressing Beatrice as a victim of her father‘s experiment, the narrator wants to show that Beatrice has been victimized despite the fact that she is Dr. Rappacinni‘s only daughter. This narrator‘s view of Beatrice‘s dehumanization, when later is compared to Giovanni‘s view on Beatrice will serve as proof for the narrator‘s more human perspective on Beatrice. From its omniscient position, the narrator explicitly reveals Beatrice not simply as a physical being, but as a complete human being and woman, capable of feeling misery and of being reduced to nothing more than a scientific device. As the narrator sees her as a victim, it is shows that the narrator sees Beatrice as a complete human. The narrator sees that Beatrice doesn‘t deserve