In “The Minister's Black Veil” does not necessarily write about love. “How strange,” said a lady, “that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr.Hooper's face.” (Hawthorne 5) This means that Mr.Hooper could wear a black veil but it’ll be weird for the people because they only women would wear it and not men. The people think it’s strange for a man to wear a black veil because nobody hasn’t seen a man wearing a black veil especially the whole day, every day.
“I can't really feel as if good Mr. Hooper's face was behind that piece of crape,” said the sexton. An old lady muttered, “I don't like it,” as she went into the meeting-house. “He has changed himself into something awful, …show more content…
The black veil could be representative of Mr.Hooper’s specific sin (adultery), the secret sin that all people carry in their hearts, and the black veil is a symbol of secret sin and the darkness of humanity. The parable is a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. An illustration threw in alongside a truth in order to explain it, to make a deeper truth easier to understand. In the parable, you cannot hide your secret sins from God. The minister is to carry the sorrows of sins committed by others like Jesus, who died for our sins. Nevertheless, the sins of humanity are the greatest sin which society hides and …show more content…
Hawthorne’s subtlety in the use of the term resides in an irony not atypical of his work. One way understanding “The Minister’s Black Veil,” is to read it not only as the unique work of art that it is but as a tale comparable to others by Hawthorne, viewing it in the context of his essentially consistent thought and art as a whole.
Hooper in his stubborn use of the evil parable of one sin is unconsciously guilty of a greater one- that of egotistically warping the total meaning of life. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is less ambiguous and more unified because it is more ironic than has usually been recognized. The interpretations various critics have made of “The Minister’s Black Veil,” taken as a whole, offer three basic points of view. The first is the interpretation that the veil indicates some specific crime by Mr. Hooper. The second view, and the one most widely held rejects the idea of personal wrongdoing and sees the veil simply as a device chosen by the minister to dramatize a common human failing: man’s refusal to show to anyone his inner heart with its likely load of private guilt. Finally, the third view holds that there is something fundamentally wrong in the minister’s wearing of the veil. That Hooper is in some way in the wrong seems an inescapable conclusion from any careful reading of the story, but some qualification is called
“I can't really feel as if good Mr. Hooper's face was behind that piece of crape,” said the sexton. An old lady muttered, “I don't like it,” as she went into the meeting-house. “He has changed himself into something awful, …show more content…
The black veil could be representative of Mr.Hooper’s specific sin (adultery), the secret sin that all people carry in their hearts, and the black veil is a symbol of secret sin and the darkness of humanity. The parable is a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. An illustration threw in alongside a truth in order to explain it, to make a deeper truth easier to understand. In the parable, you cannot hide your secret sins from God. The minister is to carry the sorrows of sins committed by others like Jesus, who died for our sins. Nevertheless, the sins of humanity are the greatest sin which society hides and …show more content…
Hawthorne’s subtlety in the use of the term resides in an irony not atypical of his work. One way understanding “The Minister’s Black Veil,” is to read it not only as the unique work of art that it is but as a tale comparable to others by Hawthorne, viewing it in the context of his essentially consistent thought and art as a whole.
Hooper in his stubborn use of the evil parable of one sin is unconsciously guilty of a greater one- that of egotistically warping the total meaning of life. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is less ambiguous and more unified because it is more ironic than has usually been recognized. The interpretations various critics have made of “The Minister’s Black Veil,” taken as a whole, offer three basic points of view. The first is the interpretation that the veil indicates some specific crime by Mr. Hooper. The second view, and the one most widely held rejects the idea of personal wrongdoing and sees the veil simply as a device chosen by the minister to dramatize a common human failing: man’s refusal to show to anyone his inner heart with its likely load of private guilt. Finally, the third view holds that there is something fundamentally wrong in the minister’s wearing of the veil. That Hooper is in some way in the wrong seems an inescapable conclusion from any careful reading of the story, but some qualification is called