Kate Chopin 's The Minister 's Black Veil

The Minister’s Black Veil was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story is about a man named Parson Hooper who puts a veil on his face to cover it up. The townspeople were confused and scared for their minister. He tells why he is wearing it during the whole story..The story talks about right and wrong.

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

Commonly explored throughout her works, the idea of marriage inhibiting a woman’s freedom is the driving force behind Kate Chopin’s contextual objections to propriety. In particular, The Awakening and “The Story of an Hour” explore the lives of women seeking marital liberation and individuality. Mrs. Chopin, who was raised in a matriarchal household, expresses her opposition to the nineteenth century patriarchal society while using her personal experiences to exemplify her feminist views.

The concept of what is "individuality" and what is not has plagued and delighted man since the dawn of time. “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy adds 302 more pages to the pile of all the works that have been on the quest to define individualism. In this novel, McCarthy takes us through four faces of the key character’s life, John Grady, to portray the idea of illusory individualism. He contends that John Grady is simply a product of a society in contrast to his (Grady) notion of free will. Simply put: Grady has no alternatives but an obligation to conform to society. McCarthy uses him to create the platform in which to comment on oppression of individuality, expectation of conformity to the values of the society and the fact that

In the story The Minister’s Black Veil there was a lonely man with a black Black Veil on him and there is a deep black secret about him and the characteristics about Mr. Hooper . There are different kinds of American Romanticism in this novel with myths and symbols like loneliness , hate , gloom, sadness . They are not symbols that no one can not see they are right there in one's face, for example the title “The Black Veil’ already has a meaning a dark wardrobe representing death. Because a veil is something someone puts over there head on weddings and funerals. But they are two different meanings , in a wedding they are white meaning innocence, positive, wholeness and completion

Many people today are dependent on one another, and could not live alone in this world, due to how they would take it as a negative aspect of their lives. The new generation of humans is raised in a way that makes them believe that being lonely is the worst quality to have, and all prefer having a social life. However the people of the 20th century did not view independence the same way people do today. People of this time believed in something called Individualism, and took pride in independence rather than sociality. Individualism was widely believed during this time period and various authors wrote many novels, that displayed how independence can be advantageous and social values could cause many predicaments in a person's life.

In the story, The Minister’s Black Veil, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is an american romanticism aspect to it. The story revolves around Mr. Hooper, who is a minister. Mr. Hopper who is a main character changes up the routine in which the minister goes through. Mr. Hooper changes up the scenario, which leads to the people being uncomfortable. What made made Mr. Hooper stand out was a black veil that he wore on his face. He wore this black veil for a very long period of time. Almost as if it was a part of him.There is an explanation for why the minister chose to wear the black veil. There is a deep meaning in which there is extreme meanings behind significant items, in this case the black viel. There is an aspect of art which makes “The Minister's Black Veil,” significant. The details and symbolism within. There is a deep explanation for which applies to this story.

In a world without the different ideas from authors, readers would be reading the same types of stories without any diversity. There would be only one theme of a story until a brave author would break away from the chain and make a different type of story. Sure, the writer of the story would be rejected from society for a while, but the story they wrote will change the views of future author’s writing. Literature throughout history has shown many various ideas of themes. One of the most important themes is that of individualism. The theme of individualism means to be an individual, or refusing conform to anyone else’s views or thoughts. Individuality is the most universal theme in all of American Literature. Individualism is demonstrated in the texts “The Minister’s Black Veil”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature”, “To Build a Fire” written by Jack London, and Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”.

Poems don’t always have to rhyme and they don’t always have to be romantic either. Poems or small stories always either have a moral or a symbol of something. In the small story of The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne he uses symbols, characteristics, he uses mystery. Nathaniel was born in 1804 in Salem Massachusetts and died in 1864 in Plymouth New Hampshire. Nathaniel was a very hardworking man he put a “w” in his name because he wanted to distance himself from his ancestors. Nathaniel would move a lot from Concord to Salem from Salem to some other city then to England, after England….Italy. He is known for his mysterious and expressive novels like The Scarlet Letter, Twice Told Tales, and The House of The Seven Gables. The

In Kate Chopin 's novella, the awakening, Chopin portrays a story of how the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, undergoes a realization that she has been dumbfounded by the way society assert roles for women. Mrs. Pontellier 's awakening stirs up issues in her marriage with her husband. For Mr. Pontellier does not understand why his wife is acting different as someone who does not share the values and duties that society withholds women to. Edna even falls in love with another man, who ends up unable to return the feeling due to society’s rejection of such a relationship. Chopin uses three women, Edna, Adele and Mademoiselle as different example of what the roles of women were expected to be in the late nineteenth century and a rising movement for woman. Through the roles these three-woman play, Chopin achieves raising the issue that society aggressively holds not only women, but men also to stereotypical and unfair obligations.

The definition of romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. To define it in a simpler form, romanticism is used to elevate the imagination over reason; intuition over fact. It is made to be misleading, and at times does not involve anything with love. The writers of this genre tend to stretch and alter facts, to tell the truth. Therefore, the parable, The Minister's Black Veil, by American Romanticism writer Nathaniel Hawthrone is an excellent example of this and is a reason why I choose it to write my literary analysis on it.

    Morse Peckham in “The Development of Hawthorne’s Romanticism” explains what he interprets Hawthorne’s main theme to be in his short stories:

Akutagawa’s warns against over pursuing individuality in Hell Screen, and Lu Xun warns against giving up individuality just because society finds it moral in Diary of a Madman. In both cases, individuality has vast power, and is depicted as the most important trait humans can possess. These stories show that individuality is extremely vital to human expression. Yoshihide’s individuality makes it possible for him to feel so committed to completing his masterpiece, while the narrator of Diary of a Madman’s individuality is a metaphor for the last hope his culture has of changing from age old traditions. In each case, the sheer power and value of individuality makes it vital to a complete human life.

Generally speaking, individualism is the key component of human existence. It shapes and creates the person. The psychologist McCrae states, that individualism influences a person (Schimmack, Ulrich, Shigehiro Oishi, and Ed Diener ). It means that human behavior solely depends on individuality. Consequently, what happens when a person losses it? The answer lies in the end of Marge Piercy’s poem “anonymous submission”. That is to say, that a person sheds the main component of his existence and becomes a

In 1832, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a chilling, dark tale about a Puritan society that exposed their hypocrisies called “The Minster’s Black Veil.” The Puritans believed everyone was a sinner at birth. Because of this they were unsure who was saved or were damned, and it led to them to start judging others. In the story, Hawthorne starts to uncover the dark habits of the seemingly happy community; by giving their pastor a black veil. When the pastor refuses to remove veil, the town is struck with fear. The veil sends the whole community questioning their pastor’s sanity, or if he committed a horrid sin. The story highlights the Puritans belief that some are saved while others are damned, therefore, they must separate the sinners and virtuous using the binaries light, dark, feminine, and masculine; which comes together in the form of the veil.