Women Suffocated in Yellow Wallpaper, Rappaccini's Daughter and Beloved A connection can be drawn between the stories listed above regarding women living as prisoners. Rappaccini's daughter Beatrice is confined to a garden due to her father's love of science and becomes the pawn of several men's egos. The woman in The Yellow Wallpaper is trapped by her own family's idea of ​​how she should behave, because her mood and writing habit are not "normal" to them. Sethe, of Beloved, carries with her the weight of her past and also the past of all the slaves. She is not welcome in her community and is a prisoner in her own home, where she is forced to confront these memories of slavery. All three of these women are seen by society as crazy, evil, or both. The "prisons" in which these women live are built by their family, their history or even by themselves. Beatrice's prison is probably the most obvious. Her father made her poisonous and addicted to a poisonous flower. As a result, she was confined to the garden. There are other, less obvious, involvements that Beatrice has encountered. To the outside world she was often misunderstood. Giovanni, who was her only real connection to the outside world, was constantly in a state of confusion towards Beatrice. He didn't know if he was an angel or a demon. Ultimately, he was convinced that she was purely evil and, much to her dismay, he betrayed her. Due to her father's abnormal use of her as an experiment, these misunderstandings from the outside world were inevitable for Beatrice. Luedtke states, "Is Beatrice poisonous, sexual, or demonic? Or pure, spiritual, and angelic. She is both. It is up to John to solve the riddle." article ......iteracy and the death of narrative in Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark'." ATQ 9.4 (1995): 269-82.Stallman, Laura. Survey of Criticism of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter' {with class response and discussion}. 29 Many 2000.Stoehr, Taylor. The Mad Scientists of Hawthorne: Shoe String Press, 1978. Weinstein, Cindy. "The Invisible Hand Made Visible: 'The Birthmark'." 1993): 44-73.Haney-Peritz, Janice. “Monumental Feminism and the Ancestral Home of Literature: Another Look at The Yellow Wallpaper.” Women's Studies 12:2 (1986): 113-128. Luther. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Romanticism of the East. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Schmudde, Carol.26:3(1992): 409-415.