. In The House of the SevenGables loneliness is the punishment Hepzibah pays for thesin of the Colonel. The pain in the character’s lives comesfrom this isolation, however when they try to live among thepeople they retreat back into their holes. (WLC 1597). Hawthorne was identical to this until he met his wifeSophia. His characters’ pride is the source of their evil. They fight to hold the lives they lead without theconsideration to modern times. Their lives come into moralconflict due to human imperfection.Hawthorne’s transcendentalist views of humanity and hisbelief in the devil result in the evil side to hischaracters. The curse put upon them from generations backplagues them in modern time due to their refusal to move on. Their personalities portray “the truth of the human heart”(biography). 7 Works Consulted Clendenning, John “Nathaniel Hawthorne.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995. 114-115. “The House of the Seven Gables.” Masterplots. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol.5. Englewood Cliffs, 1976, 2734-2738. “Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Joel Myerson. Vol. 1. Detroit, 1978, 80-101.“Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Britanica. 1998. 765-766.“Nathaniel Hawthorne.” *search.biography.com*. “Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Encarta Encyclopedia. (1997) *http://encarta.msn.com* “Nathaniel Hawthorne.” The Critical Temper. Ed. Martin Tucker. Vol. 4. A Library of Literary Criticism. Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1979, 509-514. “Nathaniel Hawthorne.” World Literature Criticism.” Ed. James P. Draper. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992, 1592-1605. “Nathaniel Hawthorne.” Novels and Novelists : A Guide to the World of Fiction. Ed. Marti...
