Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic novel, The House Of The Seven Gables, tells the story of the seemingly cursed Pyncheon family and the gloomy house they inhabit. The Pyncheon's generations-long struggle with the Maule family over the ancestral home is deeply layered with supernatural elements, witchcraft, secret panels, curses, and romance. The story also incorporates themes of appearance vs. reality, and the oppressiveness of the past.
Study Pack
The The House of the Seven Gables Study Pack contains:
The work of American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was based on the history of his Puritan ancestors and the New England of his own day but, in its "power of blackness," has universal...
Read more
Nathaniel Hawthorne was fond of calling himself the "obscurist man of letters in America." Indeed, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom Hawthorne basically created the short story form in America, once said tha...
Read more
In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his n...
Read more
When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) o...
Read more
On 9 July 1842 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody were married in a simple ceremony that capped a courtship of nearly five years. Thus Hawthorne, at the age of thirty-eight, assumed his role as he...
Read more
Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contempor...
Read more
Biography EssayIn sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colon...
Read more
Karma, according to Merriam-webster online is the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the natu...
Read more
In Nathaniel Hawthorns, The House of Seven Gables, Judge Pyncheon appears, in the public's perception, to be the model of austerity and morality, but these perceptions differ sharply from what Hawthor...
Read more
The House of the Seven Gables, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a tale of greed and betrayal and the eventual resolution in which good triumphs over evil. In this 1851 Gothic Romance, the last of th...
Read more
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
