iarjelIARJELIARJEL2708-5120https://doi.org/10.47310/iajel.2020.v01i01.006Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus as a Rewriting of Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter”Mona KhaledAlebrahimMakkah MakkahSaudi ArabiaThis paper focuses on the shared literary features between Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter” and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. It discusses Hawthorne's short story (1844) as a major work influencing Adichie's novel (2003). It investigates Adichie's approach of unraveling some of the primary issues of her time through referring to Hawthorne's views in “Rappaccini's Daughter”. The paper also examines the theme of Religion and character formation as two similar literary elements, and it examines how the symbolism of the experiment flower is used differently according to the authors' thematic views. By considering Adichie's Purple Hibiscus as a rewriting of Hawthorne's “Rappaccini's Daughter”, the researcher aims to depict the themes of religion and science, character formation, and symbolism as shared literary elements between the two works.