A person's physical appearance can change the way others perceive and treat them. In the Minister’s Black Veil, the citizens describe Mr. Hooper as a nice guy who many trusted, “Mr. Hooper, a gentlemanly person, of about thirty, though still a bachelor, was dressed with due clerical neatness and if a careful wife had starched his band, and brushed the weekly dust from his Sunday’s garb” (Hawthorne 1). Before he started wearing his black veil, the townspeople believed he was a good, trustworthy man. Then after he changed his appearance, gossip spread throughout the town, “The next day, the whole village of Millford talked of little else than Parson Hooper’s black veil” (Hawthorne 6). This shows that everyone started to ignore who Mr. Hooper
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While laying on his deathbed, Mr. Hooper says, “‘Why do you tremble at me alone?’ Cried he, turning his veiled face round the circle of pale spectators. ‘Tremble also at each other’” (Hawthorne 13). Mr. Hooper is telling people that it’s wrong to judge others on their physical appearance and everyone wears their own veil. After church, an old member said, “‘I don’t like it,’ muttered an old woman, as she hobbled into the meeting-house. ‘He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face’” (Hawthorne 2). This quote shows that the old member is inferring that Mr. Hooper has become and awful man because he changed his physical appearance. While many talked about his change of appearance, Mr. Hooper started to become conscious while in public, “It grieved him, to the very depth of his kind heart, to observe how the children fled from his approach” (Hawthorne 10). This demonstrates how he felt about the reaction of others about his black veil. Both themes in The Minister’s Black Veil deal with a person's physical appearance. Hawthorne uses the change of one’s physical appearance to show what happens when we judge others. In the beginning, everyone see’s Mr. Hooper as a well trusted man; however, as soon as he changed his physical appearance by wearing the cape, everyone believed he turned into something bad. Mr. Hooper was trying to prove to people that everyone wears a mask, so it’s wrong to judge others when you have faults
While laying on his deathbed, Mr. Hooper says, “‘Why do you tremble at me alone?’ Cried he, turning his veiled face round the circle of pale spectators. ‘Tremble also at each other’” (Hawthorne 13). Mr. Hooper is telling people that it’s wrong to judge others on their physical appearance and everyone wears their own veil. After church, an old member said, “‘I don’t like it,’ muttered an old woman, as she hobbled into the meeting-house. ‘He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face’” (Hawthorne 2). This quote shows that the old member is inferring that Mr. Hooper has become and awful man because he changed his physical appearance. While many talked about his change of appearance, Mr. Hooper started to become conscious while in public, “It grieved him, to the very depth of his kind heart, to observe how the children fled from his approach” (Hawthorne 10). This demonstrates how he felt about the reaction of others about his black veil. Both themes in The Minister’s Black Veil deal with a person's physical appearance. Hawthorne uses the change of one’s physical appearance to show what happens when we judge others. In the beginning, everyone see’s Mr. Hooper as a well trusted man; however, as soon as he changed his physical appearance by wearing the cape, everyone believed he turned into something bad. Mr. Hooper was trying to prove to people that everyone wears a mask, so it’s wrong to judge others when you have faults