Sinners 'And The Minister's Black Veil'

After reading, “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God,” by Jonathan Edwards and “The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne it is shown that these stories share a common theme. Although the stories share a common theme they also have contrasting themes as well. Authors can make a story more effective by their style. Edwards style makes his story more effective than Hawthorne by using various types of rhetorical devices to elaborate on tone and create a visual of what is happening. Compare and contrast the themes and styles of Edwards and Hawthorne text, and explain how the authors develop their theme, and elaborate on which author’s style is more effective. A theme in “The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is that everyone has sin, and that no one can ever escape their sins. In the story, when Mr Hooper was on his deathbed he uttered the words, “I look around me, and, lo! On every visage a Black Veil!,” meaning that everyone has secret sins that they want to keep secluded. Mr. Hooper wears his veil to hide his sin, and everyone else was wearing a metaphorical veil because they kept their sins …show more content…
“O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hands of God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against of the damned in hell.” This shows that sinners are in danger of being sent to hell, and that God is angry with all the sinners; God is ready to send any sinner to hell ,and that he is the only one who establishes if you go to heaven or hell. The sinners are provoking God with all of their sin that they are or have committed. Edwards establishes that God is the one who is in control of your afterlife by being able to send you to heaven or