The Role Of Commerce In The House Of The Seven Gables

     Ruth’s dream is to improve her family’s lifestyle and move into a house where she can raise Travis and the new baby. To realize her dreams she should not put everyone else’s wants and needs in front of hers all of the time. She should express her feelings more often so that her family will listen and help her to reach her goals. The play supports this view by showing how Ruth often neglects her feelings and pays great attention to her family’s feelings, wants, and needs.

Comparing Hope Leslie or Early Times in Massachusetts and The Scarlett Letter is interesting because at first glance both novels don’t appear to have much in common aside from having a female protagonist and taking place within Puritan society of early America. (keep but not as first sentence). However, despite obvious differences between both novels such as the character presentation of the female protagonists in Hope Leslie who range from the free-spirited Hope Leslie, obedient Puritan Esther, and character of Magawisca as a noble but proud Native American contrasts with the Hester Prynne’s presentation as a shamed but deeply contemplative woman in The Scarlett Letter. The different purposes all these characters each serve in their respective stories begins to show commonality in that Hope Leslie’s Hope, Esther, and Magawisca and The Scarlett Letter’s Hester Prynne all have to overcome the adversity and social expectations with Puritan society so they can follow their hearts and do what they feel is right by relying on their wit, intelligence, and inner strength. By examining how both Hope Leslie and Hester Prynne overcome the challenges they face in their respective Puritain socities it will be easier to observe how these novels presentation of their female protagonist illustrates the gender politics of each text.

As a child Ruth suffered extreme measures of disapproval from her father, Fishel Shilsky. Playing a tyrannical figure in her life, her father mistreated his wife and three kids regularly. He was the despot of the household that made every day living hell for everyone. She says, “I dreaded him and was relieved anytime he left the house...and even now I don’t want to be around anyone who is domineering or

Of all the interactions between Ruth and her husband that stick out to her the most, the one that tops all is the murder of her father. The fact that Macon “took away his medicine” stands out to Ruth and that is what forms her opinion of him. Macon’s horrifying impact on Ruth’s life defines his character as an antagonist in her life and the broader story. Contrasting Macon’s impact on Ruth is Pilate. Despite Pilate’s mysterious past, her positive interactions with Ruth define her greatly respected character. As soon as Pilate meets Ruth, she helps her become pregnant. Throughout that process, Pilate causes Ruth to feel “like a chemist doing some big important scientific experiment,” allowing Ruth to feel as if she is making a positive impact on the world for the first time (125). Not only does this interaction cause Pilate’s character to be shown very positively, it also displays how Ruth being able to influence Milkman before he was even born caused her to think more highly of

The line “Then Naomi, bereaved of her two sons as well as of her husband, got ready to return to her own country…” shows that once Naomi had no more family ties to Moab, and the famine in Judah had ended, she had motive to return to her own country, where she did have family. The importance of family ties, now in reference to ones created through marriage, can be seen when one daughter-in-law, Ruth, refuses to return to her own land and wishes to go with Naomi to Judah. At first, both daughters-in-law wanted to stay when Naomi spoke of returning to her home country. “They wept aloud and said, ‘No, we shall return you to your people.’” However, in the end Orpah returned home, remaining with her family of birth and Ruth stayed, remaining with her family of marriage. Another reference to the importance of family ties appears when the man Boaz, who is kin to Naomi, is speaking to Ruth, saying “You are proving yourself more devoted to the family than ever by not running after any young man, whether rich or poor.” Family can be assessed as being central to life in the Book of Ruth, as loyalty to family is mentioned several

Between the roles of the two woman, it is apparent that Ruth’s role is more favorable in the eyes of characters

The first character we meet is Ruth Younger. Ruth is a hardworking mother who has had a

So the obligations of an eighteenth century merchant were not only a financial consideration, but a social contract between peers. Those who fell outside of this social order would quickly find themselves cut off from the other members of their profession. This exclusion from the social fraternity could effectively end a merchant house, so the majority of merchants observed these social relationships with due diligence. Merchants began business ventures for a multitude of reasons; travel, adventure, prestige, familial obligations and profit were all motivational factors. With this diverse range of motivations, such a group could not sustain these newly formed capitalist networks through the principles of profit alone. So it was this social framework, built on trust not profit motive that constructed the initial trade networks that capitalism relied upon.

Phobe is the niece of Hepzibah. She shows up at the house of Seven Gables. Phobe was looking for a place to stay because of her father getting remarried. Phobe lived with her family in Maryland before coming to the house of Gables. Hepzibah decided to take her in since Phobe was clearly family and in needs of a place to stay.

In The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces the reader to three female characters. Throughout Hawthorne’s life, women frequently influenced his development and behavior. It is often said that his female role models inspired him to become a writer. Hawthorn was a sympathetic towards women and the difficult social roles they were expected to fill (“Three Women in The House of the Seven Gables: Hepzibah”). This sort of emotion was reflected in The House of Seven Gables through Hepzibah Pyncheon, Alice Pyncheon, and Phoebe Pyncheon.

The Younger family is cooped up inside a small apartment in the slums, barely making ends meet with Walter, Ruth, and Lena all working menial jobs. Throughout their sufferings, they keep dreams and...

The house of the Seven Gables, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a gothic fiction novel. The book is classified as a Romantic by Nathaniel Hawthorne, dark themes and all.

The protagonist, Nora, of this story plays the role of an average woman from this time period. From the beginning of the play there is a sense of dominance as her husband, Torvald, calls her names such as his “little squirrel” and a “featherhead”. (1.5-1.16) As the play goes on it is evident that Nora is not so much the child everyone sees. She reveals the unthinkable, she forged her father's signature illegally in order to keep her husband alive. Krogstad, the antagonist of this story, claims he will ruin her husbands reputations as the bank manager if she does not convince Torvald to promote him. When Torvald discovers this secret, he criticizes his wife telling her she is “unfit to raise their children” and “.............”. She is heartbroken

When Edek is taken away to a transit camp, Ruth is forced to take on even more responsibilities. She has to stay strong, comfort Bronia and somehow find food and water to survive. She decides to teach other surviving kids, as a way to spread joy in a bad situation and kill some time. She shares her food among the children, when she could keep it for herself and have a better diet, but instead she risks her health for the children. Ruth goes to an officer and demands food, water, blankets and paper for her students. He was fascinated by her determination and decided to follow her demands. He also helps her locate Edek and gives her shoes, for the long walk to find Edek. Ruth is determined, kind, disciplined, defiant, joyful and selfless, as

If marriage can have the effect of saving a woman from economic hardship, it also can have the opposite effect. The novel’s note of warning about marriage is sounded in the first few sentences, with the comparative history of the three Ward sisters of Huntingdon (Fanny Price’s two aunts and her mother), beginning about “thirty years ago,” when the eldest sister, Maria, although possessing an income of “only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income” (5). From the beginning, readers learn the factors influencing the marriage market for the daughters of respectable country families in late-eighteenth-century England. A woman was expected to bring a dowry to a marriage—and the higher the better. As Elizabeth Bergen Brophy explains, “Depending on the circumstances dowries ranged from vast fortunes and estates—especially if the bride were the sole heir of the family—to a few hundred pounds (or less), enough to help