The House of Seven Gables: Domestic Ideology Hawthorne’s novel is full of prime examples pertaining to domestic ideology. In Hawthorne’s novel we stumble upon a certain kind of domestic ideology specifically engineered for this novel. Instead of having a majority of good examples of domestic ideology we receive the flip side. We are introduced to what we can call the Pyncheon version of domestic ideology. This version of ideology revolves around the male …showed first 75 words of 2927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2927 total…female version is progressive and subtle. The latter tends to slowly build to a climax and then recede into a new more positive view. The male version seems to just climax and fizzle out, normally revolving around the death of the poor sole who strived and accomplished so much through such treachery and deceit. All in all, the novel had many angles upon which one could weed out domestic ideology in one form or another.