The House Of Seven Gables
Beginning of paper
“For, what other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!” This is quote taken from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel . This quote relates to the theme of the novel, which is the interpretation of both the past and the present. It is said that the past ....
Middle of paper
.... Pyncheon’s greed and selfishness is what built , and in turn it is also the reason for the house’s ruin.
Clifford and Hepzibah hardly live a full and satisfying life. Hepzibah cannot get “the house” out of her mind. Everywhere she goes the house haunts her. Clifford lives in a world of illusions. Their hearts have become dungeons and each one of them is his/her own jailer. They have been “locked up” in that house for so long that they can longer “live” with the rest of society ....
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Word count: 478
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
