I. Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne A. Life B. Thesis Statement II. Revenge A. Between the Judge and Clifford B. Between Matthew Maule and Colonial Pyncheon III. Pride A. The pride of the Pyncheon family.
B. The pride of Hepzibah for her family name.
IV. Romance A. Between Phoebe Pyncheon and Clifford V. Conclusion A. Thesis Statement B. Review Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. He was a descendent of early Puritan settlers, which had a great influence on his life and writings. When he graduated from Bowdoin College he published his first novel, anonymously, a gothic romance Fanshawe in 1828. The next ten years Hawthorne collected his stories and published them as Twice Told Tales in 1837. In 1841 he moved into Brook Farm Community which was a transcendentalist group living. Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in Boston July 9, 1842. After Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846 he couldn 't support himself. In 1850 …show more content…
It is expressed between the Judge and Clifford in later years but starts with Matthew Maule 's plan for revenge by cursing the Colonial Pyncheon and all further generations of the Pyncheons. "God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghostly look, at the undismayed continence of his enemy "God will give him blood to drink" (Hawthorne 3). The Colonial Pyncheon suddenly died in his home after shortly building it on Matthew Maule 's land. And all further generations had some kind of tragic death or misfortune. "the sins of fathers are passed on to the children in succeeding generations" (Buckner 2737). Hepzibah Pynchoen lived in the house of the seven gables and was stricken with severe poverty and loneliness. All through her life she suffered through