The Analysis of Light and Dark Imagery (house of seven gables)

The Analysis of Light and Dark 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. Hawthorne uses dark imagery throughout his novel to express a sense of decay, but he also …showed first 75 words of 892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 892 total…many items that symbolize the Pyncheons decaying lifestyle. The contrasting light and dark images used in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel help each other to balance out good and evil. Darkness creates the image of the decaying Pyncheon family while light, counteracting the effects of darkness, creates hope and a sign of redemption. In the end, light overcomes the dark decaying world of the Pyncheons sins, and the goodness still left within the family remain living.