The house of Seven Gables
Date Submitted: 10/05/2004 21:15:47
An ancient tale of the dreaded curse. The story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables is a typical example of this story. The story takes place in a simple time during the Puritan settlement in the New England area.
With the Puritans there is the classic case in which a man is accused of witchcraft and is killed. Well this sort of thing occurs in the exact story. Matthew Maule was
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lay out the theme of the whole story in a few word ",To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great
misfortune." (Wagenknecht 108) To gain land by the death of another has a great fault and will eventually bring you down with it.
Bibliography
Works Cited
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1965.
Wagenknecht, Edward. Nathaniel Hawthorne the Man, His Tales and
Romances. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1989.
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