The House Of Seven Gables

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haunts her. Clifford lives in a world of illusions. Their hearts have become dungeons and each one of them is his/her own jailer. They have been “locked up” in that house for so long that they can longer “live” with the rest of society. This is made evident when Clifford and Hepzibah try to leave the house. On the train, thoughts of the house poison both the mind of Hepzibah and Clifford. The conversation of the two center around the house. Although they have physically fled from the house, emotionally they both keep themselves “prisoners” of the house. They cannot separate themselves from the evil of the house, because they cannot separate themselves from the house itself. As a result they return to the house of the seven gables. They return to the “dungeon” on their own free will. Thus “sentencing” themselves of a lifetime of loneliness and misery of living in , if not physically definitely mentally. As a result of their lack of ability to completely “leave” the house, their ...

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