Minister's Black Veil Parable

Like many other American renaissance writing, Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces readers with a parable story. In the story" The Minister’s Black Veil," is introduced in the seventh century in puritan New England where the focus is around the minister, Parson Hooper. Some may wonders why the minister chooses to wear a black veil. The ambiguity that makes the reaction of the townspeople all the more telling of their inherent sin and hypocritical nature. While speculating as to what horrific crime the minister must have committed, they overlook their own crimes, both large and small. At no point in the story do the people attempt to consider the symbolic significance of the veil, rather they gossip about what actions caused Hooper's apparent shame. "Some gathered in …show more content…
The minister can be seen as an example of God.The ministers carries the sorrows of sins commited to others, so the ministers wears the veil so that he can hide all the sins that the people have committed. Also, the parable is that the sins of humanity is the greatest sin which society hides and ignores. People can be selfish and they care only about themselves instead of others. Whenever we see a problem we will ignore it and not do anything about it. The lesson learned in the parable “ The Minister's Black Veil” is that people have to avoid the sin of secret sin because there is always a consequence to our sin or secret failure. This can be said that if we hide our sins we can feel guilty or even get in big trouble. We should all confess our sins, so that we can feel free and not feel guilty about the things we have done. In addition, the veil can also be compared to man’s way of trying to hide the hideous acts of a sin by trying to hide the hideous acts of sins by trying to cover it up with “a fig leaf” as in the case of Adam and Eve. Hooper believes that everyone lives in a state of sin, inherited from Adam and