Seclusion from the outside world can cause one to not be in their right mind. In the stories “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and “The Bet” isolation played an immense role. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Beatrice, was kept in a garden away from everyone. Her father, Singor, was a doctor who created medicines out of plants that he grew in this garden. Beatrice met a student at the University and he found out that her touch was poison. The reader learned that Singor would sacrifice anything that is dear to him in order to gain more knowledge. Once Beatrice knew she was poisonous she chose to drink an antidote in order to try and become normal, which ended up killing her. In the story “The Bet”, a young man of twenty-five made a bet with the banker that
