![]() ![]() The two major continuities in the novel are continuities of character and continuities of plot. This initial tale can be set as a sample, which will be repeated during the novel: Similar events and personalities will recur throughout time and even throughout the generations. Years later the Colonel himself died suspiciously and his nephew was convicted of this murder. Colonel Pyncheon led the charge against him, and thus acquired the property on which he later built the house. Soon after Matthew Maule refused to sell the property to Colonel Pyncheon, he was charged with witchcraft and burned. Matthew Maule originally owned the property, on which the house of the seven gables was built, a relatively obscure man who was often called a wizard. The first chapter of The House of the Seven Gables entitled “The Old Pyncheon Family” introduces the central event of the novel: The conflict between Colonel Pyncheon and Matthew Maule, those we can recognize as “first Pyncheon” and “first Maule”. Matthew Maule - Maule the younger - Holgraveģ.1 CYCLICAL VIEW OF HISTORY THROUGH THE EXISTENTIALISM OF GUILT Colonel Pyncheon - Gervayse Pyncheon - Judge Jaffrey Pyncheonī. ![]() BIOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLESĪ. ![]()
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