In "Rappaccini's Daughter," by Nathaniel Hawthorn, identify an aspect of the story that might be tied to Emerson's notion of transcendentalism....

Emerson
was a man who was interested in individualism, the natural world and the condition of one's
soul.

Nature, Emerson's essay written in 1836...

...is a well-organized statement of his earliest idealism, showing the natural world to
be a present messiah...

Emerson was not interested in
what the world valued: position, notoriety or wealth. Having been raised in
poverty himself, he had no illusions about the advantages of having money, but these things were
not what appealed to him. One thing that Emerson valued was...

...a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature.

In perhaps one of Emerson's finest poems, entitled
"Days," he finds himself lacking in that he is not a part of his "work-oriented
culture." He chides himself for the different path he has taken as he
writes of the passing of days, but values nature over "things."
In the poem he speaks of the "daughters of Time" who are personified to express the
passing of dayshe notes that they bring to his...