Targeting the discourse of domination that rests on the binary opposites of power relations, ecofeminism addresses the destructive patriarchal practices. This movement brings into light the striking analogy that exists between such practices against women and against nature. The discourse is often translated in terms of manipulation, abuse, mistreatment, and subjugation with all the suppression and oppression that these practices entail. Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” pleads an ecofeminist approach in terms of three aspects. First, it represents the two parties addressed in ecofeminist movements: on one hand there is the patriarchal oppressor embodied in Rappaccini and the two other male figures in the story, and, on the other hand, there is the oppressed, namely Beatrice and the garden. Secondly, it strikes a characteristic affinity between the maltreated female and the abused garden. Thirdly, it delineates the power relations represented as dichotomous binary opposites that each of the afore mentioned parties respectively represents.