The House of the Seven Gables (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: 1850
- Setting: Salem, Massachusetts
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Superstition, Nineteenth century, Brothers and sisters, New England, Good and evil, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Judges
- Locales: Salem, MA
Characters Discussed
Colonel Pyncheon, a stern Massachusetts magistrate who, during the famous witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century, sent to his death a man whose property he coveted for himself. Cursed by his innocent victim, the colonel died on the day his big new house, the House of the Seven Gables, built on his victim’s land, was officially opened to guests.
Matthew Maule, Colonel Pyncheon’s victim, who swore that his unjust accuser should drink blood, as Colonel Pyncheon did when he died.
Thomas Maule, the son of Matthew Maule. As the head...
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