Everyone is always judged, no matter who you are. I believe it’s human to judge, it’s a natural thing for people to do on a daily basis. Most likely anyone who looks at someone that is a slight bit different get’s the majority of attention on them. I don’t believe that this is the best trait people can have but it’s the truth. Appearance comes down to how you look but mostly what you wear. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “ The Minister’s Black Veil”, The main character Mr. Hooper, really opens light to the topic of appearance. Being a reverend Mr. hooper has quite a shocking way he displays himself. A black veil is what he wears down his face, more like a second face he carries around. This black veil represents the sin and sorrow the reverends been holding. …show more content…
Your appearances is a reflection of yourself. Reverend Hooper remains a mysterious character throughout the whole story. Living in a small town the reverend always remained quiet and humble. It was a surprise to everyone when he suddenly and unexpectedly started to wear a veil that covered his eyes and nose. Living in a puritan community, this wasn’t actually accepted. The reverend started to frighten the people that had trusted him in the past. The townspeople all had there own opinion about why he was wearing it right when they seen him. Some people thought that he has gone mad and others believed he was covering a dishonorable sin. Reverend Hooper’s change of appearance did affect him in a way that brought him mostly negative attention, but I don’t believe that is anyway connected to the type of person he
In “The Minister’s Black Veil” Minister Hooper hides his face with a black veil one day and does not remove it, because, he says everyone has a secret sin. The veil makes him seem more dark to the people attending the church. He refuses to remove the veil for anyone and will not give a reason as to why he is wearing it. People start to think that since he isn’t removing or giving a reason why he is wearing the veil that he is hiding an extremely dark sin.
The story, "The Minister's Black Veil," by Nathaniel Hawthorn is a historical fiction short story. One day in the story, the town's minister, Parson Hooper, walks into church with a black veil covering an immense amount of his face save for his mouth and chin. For years he refuses to take it off, even after he is on his deathbed, no matter the countless number of people he loses from his life because they think the veil may be demonic. The black veil in the story may symbolize guilt as he may have done something awful and can't bear to show his face.
Throughout the short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Reverend Hooper has a secret sin that is depicted as a mystery to the characters within the story and the readers, but teaches a parable. He wears the black veil for the rest of his life, even on his deathbed: an example in the literal sense for a spiritual sentiment. The crux of the parable is that every person dons a black veil, perhaps not physically, but spiritually. Hooper continually expresses that everyone hide sins and should fear one another instead of being terrified of his visually expressed sin as he had the audacity to wear a black crape, partially covering his face, for the rest of his mortal life. In “The
While it’s true that Hooper’s veil encourages the townspeople to pay more attention to his sermons, and fear for the state of their souls.It’s as if strict Puritanism has taken the townspeople’s joy and energy for nothing. Further, the Puritan townspeople, with their focus on sinfulness, quickly come to believe that the veil must represent Hooper’s sins, rather than understanding that through the veil he is trying to tell them to look to their own sins. Even Hooper, seemingly the perfect Puritan, may be violating his own beliefs. The black veil hides his face, but ironically, it makes him more “visible” and noticeable to the townspeople — in this sense, he could be guilty of the sin of pride. It’s not clear why Hooper is any more moral than the townspeople laughing and enjoying their Sunday walk to church — the only difference is that he’s miserable.Puritanism has its good points, insofar as it encourages humans to live moral, pious lives, but it may go too far in depriving them of joy and encouraging them to “show off” their
Mr. Hooper, the minister with the black veil, has a sin. Mr. Hooper wore the black veil to symbolized secret sin; this veil represented how everyone has something in their heart that no one knows about. For example, “people have speculations that Mr. Hooper committed adultery with the young girl that died at the beginning of the story”. Simultaneously, he wears the veil to hide his face from the world and what he did. Others will bring up the fact that Mr. Hooper doesn’t want to be defined by the black veil but by himself as an individual. For example, in Article II written by Angie Fullen, she writes, “…but that he was more aware of the need to be defined by his heart and words than by his appearance”. It’s right that
The two texts are both spoken in a godly way and they both present a life lesson to take hence to. Each author wrote a sermon, because they both intended to get their point across. The two authors are similar in ways but also have their own unique style of how they determine what is to be brought from their sermon. Both texts present a moral to life that all need to take into consideration.
In the short story The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne is explaining how mankind is afflicted by the seven sins. The officer of the church is ring the town bell calling all the people of the village to church, when the church sexton sees Mr. Hooper leave his house he stops ring the bell. The people of the town don't like the Hoopers change in appearance they think that he has lost his sanity and no one walks on the side of the street he lives on. Later in the story the their is a funeral for a young woman and the town people think that's why Hooper is wearing the Black veil “for his own secret sins”. The young minister asks Hooper to remove the veil as Hooper is dying. Hooper is brought to his grave, “Many years pass, and grass
Hooper is a Romantic character because he rejects socializing and because he is constantly rejected by the society of the town, which he doesn’t want to get into because of all the guilt throughout the town. “When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when the man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!”(Hawthorne). Covering his face is a clear indication that he isn’t as social as he would have been if he wasn’t carrying everyone else’s sin.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," Mr. Hooper, a Reverend in the town of Milford, surprises his parishioners by donning a conspicuous black veil one Sunday. The town is visibly spooked, yet still curious, about his eerie appearance and profoundly affected by his sermon on secret sin. "A subtle power was breathed into his words. Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought" (2432). The parishioner's expect that Hooper will only don the veil for one day and then remove it, having used the visage to make his point on secret sin, but they are taken aback to
In “The Minister's Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the veil symbolized purity and innocence in Hooper's eyes , however it really symbolized the two “I’s” , isolation from his community, and /village , and Elizabeth , and Mr. Hooper’s insecurities with the veil.Throughout the whole short story the environment began to change because of Mr.Hooper’s veil. For instance , when Mr. Hooper started to wear his black veil , he started getting attention from the villagers.The author expresses that the villagers do not understand and accept Mr. Hooper’s veil. When the villagers saw Mr.Hooper with the veil, their comments already told their reactions to the veil. “ I don’t like it” and he has turned himself into something awful , only by hiding his face” (Hawthorne
In the short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the townspeople have a few ideas as to what Hooper’s veil represents or hides. Some of the villagers believe that the minister, Mr. Hooper has committed a shameful sin. The idea of the town’s people somewhat surfaces while Elizabeth is speaking to the minister himself and says, “for the sake of your holy office, do away this scandal” (1316). Therefore proving to him, that the people of his own parish have created assumptions as to the many sins he may have taken part in to wear the black veil over his face. Whereas “one or two affirmed that there was no mystery at all, but only that Mr. Hooper’s eyes were so weakened by the midnight lamp, as to require a shade”; a shade that would hence be provided by the black veil because it would “give a darkened aspect to all living and inanimate things” (1313, 1312). At that point in the story however, one cannot be one hundred percent certain as to which predicament is correct. What the author does do is throw in a couple of symbols that may persuade some
There is no end to the ambiguity in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”; this essay hopes to explore this problem within the tale.
Townspeople may be overly critical of the veil because a veil not only conceals but also protects meaning that Hooper may be wearing the veil to protect himself from the judgment of others, which makes the veil even more scandalous (Coale 35). However, Hooper accepts that “the veil drives many people away which may be an acceptable consequence for his reward of teaching his congregation” (Sterling 153-154). The veil is meant to evoke emotions from the townspeople that will lead to reflection on their sins (Freedman 355). Therefore, despite the general negative public opinion of the veil, the people who do not overly concern themselves with the alleged sin that the veil hides and instead treat the veil as an opportunity to be reminded of their secret sins are deeply and positively affected by the veil. Some people merely by hearing of the veil feel called to make lengthy journeys just to see itl. It is for people such as these that Hooper wears the veil. In addition to making him an exceptional clergyman, the veil also allows him to better sympathize with these sinners. In a way "the wearing of the veil can be seen as an ethical move in which Hooper takes on the sin of the entire community" because his sacrificial act of suffering makes it easier for the sinners relate to him (Boone 168). Because Hooper realizes how “a simple veil can affect
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" embodies the hidden sins that we all hide and that in turn distance us from the ones we love most. Reverend Hooper dons a black veil throughout this story, and never takes it off. He has discerned in everyone a dark, hidden self of secret sin. In wearing the veil Hooper dramatizes the isolation that each person experiences when they are chained down by their own sinful deeds. He has realizes that symbolically everyone can be found in the shadow of their own dark veil. Hooper in wearing this shroud across his face is only amplifying the dark side of people and the truth of human existence and nature.
Hardly anyone would have sympathy for Mr. Hooper because it seems crazy to be wearing a veil especially for a man or a parson. And it is hard to get some logical reasons why Mr. Hooper got a veil on his face. One couple seeing the veil judged: “’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!’”. People in the town could not find out why Mr. Hooper is covering up his face. Goodman Gray of the sexton when saw Parson Hooper said: “’Are you sure it is our parson?’”. The story tell us what the people think about the veil: “But that piece of crap, to their imagination, seemed to hang down before his heart, the symbol of a fearful secret between him and