The house of Seven Gables

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 …

…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.