Part one of term paper
Imagery Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, uses many qualities of symbolism which help develop the novel’s main ideas. Darkness is the emblematic “color” of the Pyncheon’s. Contrasted with its opposite, light, it forms one of the major symbols of the novel: the opposition of dark and light. ...

Part two of term paper
... of Phoebe, using light imagery, expresses that she is an innocent woman with an inner spirit to help break the Pyncheon’s curse. Clark Giffith records in Hawthorne’s Imagery: The “Proper Light and Shadow” in the Major Romances that “Phoebe is rather too obviously a little ray of sunshine...” (37). When Phoebe enters the house “from the sunny daylight,” and is almost blinded by the “density of shadows” lurking in the passages of the old h ...