Author(s)

Li Xia

Corresponding Author

Li Xia

Abstract

The paper focuses on the exploration for the possible causes of the presentation of estrangement in The House of the Seven Gables. With a detailed examination of personal, social, political and historical forces working on Hawthorne’s creation, a conclusion is drawn that the literary presentation of the varieties of estrangement in The House is a natural product of Hawthrone’s inclination towards solitariness, a long-delayed recognition of literary status, the unfair dismissal from the job and his meditation on the negative influences of the material civilization on the wholeness of man’s mind and spirit.

Keywords

Estrangement, Solitariness, Literary dream, Isolation, Material civilization, Existential predicament.