Insidiously yet unabashedly delighting in the power to frustrate inherent in limited perspective, Hawthorne toys further with his audience by trolling them along with dramatic irony, using what should give readers confidence in their knowledge to ultimately disarm them into a state of complete uncertainty and suspense. ... His description of the seated judge at once affirms our suspicions and supplants them-the narrator notes that, as we observe the judge, "his breath you do not hear" (268), an observation that seems to only logically make sense if the judge is indeed dead. ... In th...

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