In this short story Hawthorne has a way of getting his point across but showing how people portray others. He shows this by using a black veil, the black veil is used to show how if a person changes him or herself how much a person will change their thoughts about the other person. This veil is a huge part of showing how if a person even changes their look how others will judge them even if everything else has stayed the same. The next part of this essay was about social judgement, you would not think that this was such a big problem when Hawthorne was alive but it was. Social judgment was not only a problem back then but is also still going on today. Hawthorne wanted to show how one simple change in look could cause so much disturbance within
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If you want to change up what you even wear and it is not in the norm people will not just accept that you are trying to be different and Hawthorne did a great job in showing that with the veil. Since mankind started there has been what is normal and what is not and people will always be that way no matter if a person thinks that they can change what they think or not. When Hawthorne wrote this parable The Minister’s Black Veil he wanted to use a black veil to show how society judges Mr. Hooper when he goes against the social norms of the time.
In the parable The Minister’s Black Veil the black veil is a huge symbol in even real life today. This veil shows how if you change even one thing about your appearance people will think of you different even if your look is the only thing that has changed. …show more content…
Hawthorne used this example to show how much a person judges another person if they change one thing. This is still a huge part in today’s society and always has been. “This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him for some great crime too horrible to be entirely concealed, or otherwise than so obscurely intimated.” (Page 10 Hawthorne). When the someone changes what they are doing of what they wear people tend to judge. He wanted to show that if you say you do or do not judge you always judge people when they change their appearance. “ "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!""Something must surely be amiss with Mr. Hooper's intellects," observed her husband, the physician of the village. "But the strangest part of the affair is the effect of this vagary, even on a sober-minded man like myself. The black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot. Do you not feel it so?" (Page 4 Hawthorne). This shows how much people tried to stay away from him. Hawthorne wanted to show how everyone was so hard on this man just because of one thing. Hawthorne wanted to show everyone how rude people can be when someone changes what they do just a
If you want to change up what you even wear and it is not in the norm people will not just accept that you are trying to be different and Hawthorne did a great job in showing that with the veil. Since mankind started there has been what is normal and what is not and people will always be that way no matter if a person thinks that they can change what they think or not. When Hawthorne wrote this parable The Minister’s Black Veil he wanted to use a black veil to show how society judges Mr. Hooper when he goes against the social norms of the time.
In the parable The Minister’s Black Veil the black veil is a huge symbol in even real life today. This veil shows how if you change even one thing about your appearance people will think of you different even if your look is the only thing that has changed. …show more content…
Hawthorne used this example to show how much a person judges another person if they change one thing. This is still a huge part in today’s society and always has been. “This was what gave plausibility to the whispers, that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him for some great crime too horrible to be entirely concealed, or otherwise than so obscurely intimated.” (Page 10 Hawthorne). When the someone changes what they are doing of what they wear people tend to judge. He wanted to show that if you say you do or do not judge you always judge people when they change their appearance. “ "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!""Something must surely be amiss with Mr. Hooper's intellects," observed her husband, the physician of the village. "But the strangest part of the affair is the effect of this vagary, even on a sober-minded man like myself. The black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot. Do you not feel it so?" (Page 4 Hawthorne). This shows how much people tried to stay away from him. Hawthorne wanted to show how everyone was so hard on this man just because of one thing. Hawthorne wanted to show everyone how rude people can be when someone changes what they do just a