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 accused of being a wizard so he was hanged. When before he was hung

he blurted out this words ", God will give him blood to drink." (Hawthorne 8) Matthew yelled out this statement while he was pointing at a certain person that person was Colonel Pyncheon. Who after this incident acquired the land that

once was Maule's homestead. Near to where the wizard was put to rest was Maule's Well which soon after the incident became hard and brackish. The Colonel soon died in the House of Seven Gables and so the curse began on the

That is how the story began and from there the story goes through a series of flashbacks to the past after three

Pyncheons comes to an end and Clifford can live in the house with little fear. Then he returns to the important theme and idea of the curse and of what happened in the story.

Judge Pyncheon. Edward also points out the irony in the book when he points out that the judge died in the same chair which his ancestor did. He mentions how chapter 13 is the most ghostly chapter in the story. How Hawthorne writes

misfortune." (Wagenknecht 108) To gain land by the death of another has a great fault and will eventually bring you down with it.

to gain acclaim for his stories. Then he continues on to speak of what the important chapters or different chapters are. He writes of the eerie incident of chapter 18 and the detail in which Hawthorne goes into to describe the dead body of

on Maule's Well and its importance to the story. More than the idea of the house of the seven gables does for the story. He also compares and contrasts this work with the form work of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Which helped him

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