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within their hearts, all potentially vicious and violent: some, like the Puritan oligarchs, and perhaps even Coverdale [DeSalvo presents evidence against this narrator as the possible murderer of Zenobial, in fact kill women, often with society's sanction and praise; and if they do not, in fact, act on their unconscious or conscious murderous feelings towards women, it is only by chance, not because their society disallows this behaviour. In fact, what is so terrifying about Hawthorne's works is that his women have no legal recourse, no societal sanction against these men. Rather, these men, perverse as they are, are precisely what the patriarchy produces to represent true manhood, and, like the Puritan hierarchy, in some instances they become the heroes of their times (p. 121).
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