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In the passage of Nathaniel Hawthrone’s The House of Seven Gables, Judge Pyncheon’s character is industriously planned out to reveal his inner core. Through Hawthorne’s sarcastic tone and lurid foreshadowing, Judge Pyncheon is depicted as a dark flagitious man.
Hawthorne’s narration is actively sarcastic through the first paragraph of the passage, creating a susceptible view of Judge Pyncheon. Hawthorne states that he is not “imputing crime� upon such a person of Pyncheon’s “eminent respectability,� but clearly is in fact doing so. This directly raises the question that, if Judge Pyncheon is of such noble character, why is the remote possibility of his crimes even being noted? Hawthorne’s concrete irony suggests that Judge Pyncheon is not the same person that he “beholds in the looking glass.� Hawthorne’s use of a long syntax sentences structure within the first paragraph slowly bring about this; first accounting out Judge Pyncheon’s array of......

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