When comparing “Sinner’s in the hands of an angry God” and “Minister in the black Veil.”you must analyze their themes. In Jonathan Edwards's sermon he uses metaphors and similes to put the fear of God into his congregation. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a short story to to show that nobody can escape a sin. Nathaniel uses a more effective way to get his point across to his congregation.
Hawthorne’s parable is about a puritan minister (Mr. Hooper) that began to wear a black veil “Swathed about his forehead,and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath,Mr. Hooper had on a black veil.” The black veil represents sin. Edwards’s sermon was a little fierce, he uses personification to describe hell “glowing flames of the wrath of God.” and “Hell’s wide gaping mouth open.” In “The minister’s black veil” Hawthorne describes the minister before the black veil as a good minister “reputation of a good preacher but not an energetic one”. …show more content…
Hooper’s congregation views him with the black veil “it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page”. The congregation felt as if the black veil was something that made the one who wore the veil see life in a dark aspect. The congregation describes the sermon that Mr. Hooper gave the first time that he wore the veil. “It was tinged, rather more darkly than usual”. The sermon that Mr. Hooper gave was about secret sin “The subject had reference to secret sin”. Edwards refers to sin as something evil that ways your life down from the path of god “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead.” and “great weight and pressure toward
Hawthorne’s parable is about a puritan minister (Mr. Hooper) that began to wear a black veil “Swathed about his forehead,and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath,Mr. Hooper had on a black veil.” The black veil represents sin. Edwards’s sermon was a little fierce, he uses personification to describe hell “glowing flames of the wrath of God.” and “Hell’s wide gaping mouth open.” In “The minister’s black veil” Hawthorne describes the minister before the black veil as a good minister “reputation of a good preacher but not an energetic one”. …show more content…
Hooper’s congregation views him with the black veil “it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page”. The congregation felt as if the black veil was something that made the one who wore the veil see life in a dark aspect. The congregation describes the sermon that Mr. Hooper gave the first time that he wore the veil. “It was tinged, rather more darkly than usual”. The sermon that Mr. Hooper gave was about secret sin “The subject had reference to secret sin”. Edwards refers to sin as something evil that ways your life down from the path of god “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead.” and “great weight and pressure toward