Links Hawthorne's use of the supernatural to "Rappaccini's Daughter", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", and "The House of Seven Gables"
Title: Links Hawthorne's use of the supernatural to "Rappaccini's Daughter", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", and "The House of Seven Gables"
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Links Hawthorne's use of the supernatural to "Rappaccini's Daughter", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", and "The House of Seven Gables"
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 743 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
HAWTHORNE AND THE SUPERNATURAL
Ghosts, witches, the unexplained, and the unknown, all supernatural things that can scare people, surprise people, or just make them think. Hawthorne used the supernatural in his work to add excitement, suspense, and fright. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", and "The House of Seven Gables" one can find many examples of this.
In "Rappaccini's Daughter." Rappaccini is a scientist whose wife cheated on him, and he was hurt very much,
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getting chills from spirits, the spirit shaking the house, the walls cracking and blood running down them, and the skeleton hand in the vault that strangles the Pyncheon to death in the same chair.
In Hawthorne's work, especially "Rappaccini's Daughter", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", and "The House of Seven Gables", one can find that he used supernatural for many reasons, to teach lessons, to add color to his writing, and to make his points more clearly.