The Minister’s Black Veil: The Symbol of a Sinner Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works are symbolic. He developed his short stories around a symbol. He was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. He goes deep into the dark side of humanity. “The Minister’s Black Veil,” revolves around the Reverend Mr. Hooper, pastor of Milford.
This story was set in the 1600s, in a village of Puritan New England, this story reflects Hawthorne’s deep awareness of his Puritan ancestry. They believed that only certain people were predestined by God to go to heaven and the bad people were thought to be controlled by evil forces. Mr. Hooper appears for the Sunday sermon wearing a black veil. The people believe he’s crazy or has gone mad, but others …show more content…
Inner conflict, sadness, and the disconnect between man and his nature, “Thus, from beneath the black veil, there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him.(Hawthorne349)” The ambiguity of the veil leads the people to wonder if Mr. Hooper knows their secret sins, so they repudiate him or avoid him in their own …show more content…
Hooper is a romantic character simply because of what he have done which made him become one. He got rejected and avoided by his own people in his community mainly because of the black veil. He committed a crime, a sin, and he’s trying to inform the public, but he doesn’t have the courage to come right out and confess. He wears the black veil to attempt to relieve his guilty conscience even though he already knows that the people will not assume that he has sinned because he was a great pastor, but wearing the veil did do something. It made the people doubt him and change their view about him. A very calm and quite unremarkable minister I believe that the three levels in the parable of understanding the symbolism of the black veil is first, it represent Mr. Hooper’s sin “If it be a sign of mourning,” replied Mr. Hooper, “I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil (347).” Also it suggests that the black veil is the reflection of the people in the story, which cause them to react with fear and horror to the veil. But from Elizabeth’s point of view, it’s a symbol of a secret of Hooper. “...there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret
This story was set in the 1600s, in a village of Puritan New England, this story reflects Hawthorne’s deep awareness of his Puritan ancestry. They believed that only certain people were predestined by God to go to heaven and the bad people were thought to be controlled by evil forces. Mr. Hooper appears for the Sunday sermon wearing a black veil. The people believe he’s crazy or has gone mad, but others …show more content…
Inner conflict, sadness, and the disconnect between man and his nature, “Thus, from beneath the black veil, there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him.(Hawthorne349)” The ambiguity of the veil leads the people to wonder if Mr. Hooper knows their secret sins, so they repudiate him or avoid him in their own …show more content…
Hooper is a romantic character simply because of what he have done which made him become one. He got rejected and avoided by his own people in his community mainly because of the black veil. He committed a crime, a sin, and he’s trying to inform the public, but he doesn’t have the courage to come right out and confess. He wears the black veil to attempt to relieve his guilty conscience even though he already knows that the people will not assume that he has sinned because he was a great pastor, but wearing the veil did do something. It made the people doubt him and change their view about him. A very calm and quite unremarkable minister I believe that the three levels in the parable of understanding the symbolism of the black veil is first, it represent Mr. Hooper’s sin “If it be a sign of mourning,” replied Mr. Hooper, “I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil (347).” Also it suggests that the black veil is the reflection of the people in the story, which cause them to react with fear and horror to the veil. But from Elizabeth’s point of view, it’s a symbol of a secret of Hooper. “...there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret