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A 3 page paper which examines the novel The House of Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne as it relates to the meaning of activities outside and inside the house. No additional sources cited.
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thematic content. As an author notes in the preface of the story, "the truth, namely, that the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of
every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief" (Hawthorne Preface). In this one sees that the theme or moral or thesis of the story is that what someone does
could well live on for generations and that a man who does wrong may harm his future descendents because of such action. This is very much a part of the
story and also a symbolic element that relates to the activities that are going on inside and outside the house. The following paper examines this particular outlook. The
House of Seven Gables and Meaning The house was once beautiful and new but it was also built by someone who did another
very wrong. The land was originally owned by Maule and word had it that Colonel Pyncheon coveted his land and thus framed him as a witch so that Maule would
be killed and he could have that land. In essence one could well claim that there is something of a curse on this house since then for each successive generation
seems to fall on incredible bad luck. It is noted, in relationship to the house and the street outside the house, that,
"The street in which it upreared its venerable peaks has long ceased to be a fashionable quarter of the town; so that, though the old edifice was surrounded by habitations
of modern date, they were mostly small, built entirely of wood, and typical of the most plodding uniformity of common life" (Hawthorne I). In the beginning this house was beautiful
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