... wrote. The House of Seven Gables was Hawthorne's follow-up novel to the highly successful The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne, haunted by the sins of his ancestors, examines guilt, retribution, and atonement in The House of Seven Gables. The house has been in the Pyncheon family ... sins of one generation live through successive generations. Through The House of Seven Gables, Hawthorne tries to convey that subsequent generations inherit the sin of their ancestors. The novel resolves with Hepzibah walking away from her cursed house, suggesting that she will have a brighter future, come to terms ...

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... literature (Turner). Knowing already that he wanted to be an author, he stated; "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer to live by their quarrels. So, I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author (qt. in "Nathaniel Hawthorne - Biography")." Upon his graduation ... and its hypocrisy, many of his works take place in colonial New England and center around themes such as morality, guilt, good vs. evil, sin, punishment and criticism of the past (Turner, 135-138). His deep infatuation with these themes ...

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... The Scarlet Letter but instead displays the inability to perfect human nature regardless of any assistance given by a created lifestyle such as Puritanism. Hester was a social outcast because of her past and the mistakes she made, and because of this, she would cause such an upheaval that it would cause a pastor to reveal a life-altering secret. Puritan life in this story ... the town who commit the ultimate sin by eating the fruit of adultery. Their experience allows the townspeople to see how it is to really be human and that committing sins is a forgivable part of human life. For exa...

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... Prynne commits adultery in the puritan society. The type of shunning that is done by the townspeople against Hester in centuries past by communities is based off of what were considered immoral to society during this particular time period. In the past several decades, we've expanded this type of rejection to the fine, negative science of avoidance; one that can be ... Dimmesdale and her daughter Pearl. As you can see, both victims of such crimes are seen differently and were once normal human beings before the news broke out of their "sins." Although Hester a character in a novel and R...

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