ligious imagery and thinking play a major role for Nathaniel Hawthorne. His perceptive insight into the organized religion that was Puritanism lends a sense of disillusionment and cynicism to his short stories. He is especially taken with the role of sin and man’s capacity for evil. He is both enthralled by it and at the same time repulsed. But he is acutely aware of its existence and uses this knowledge to highlight the hypocrisy and insincerity of a religion suffused with tyrannical clergy and populated by a disingenuous society intent on purveying saintliness and devout lives while hiding their truest human natures.
The “Veil” represents many things but the most prevalent are guilt and the fear of revealed sin. It was just a piece
The “Veil” represents many things but the most prevalent are guilt and the fear of revealed sin. It was just a piece