Hooper is left to himself in isolation due to the sin that wraps around his dark veil. The Puritan community makes comments ranging from “I don’t like it.” (1) to an old woman calling Mr. Hooper “ghostlike” (2). Fear strikes in the community and causes the people in the community to “turn aside to avoid him” or “others would make it a point of hardihood to throw themselves in his way” (5). Regardless of their reaction, the people left him alienated from the commonwealth therefore leaving him with just his black veil or simply alone with his secret sin. Hawthorne uses the community to show how secret sin can affect the holder’s life just like Mr. Hooper’s. In addition on Mr. Hooper’s deathbed Reverend Mr. Clark requests that Mr. Hooper removes the veil for “judgement” because he sees no reason for the veil to remain, but with this Hooper declares that “lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” (7). This shows that everyone will take their secret sin to the
Hooper is left to himself in isolation due to the sin that wraps around his dark veil. The Puritan community makes comments ranging from “I don’t like it.” (1) to an old woman calling Mr. Hooper “ghostlike” (2). Fear strikes in the community and causes the people in the community to “turn aside to avoid him” or “others would make it a point of hardihood to throw themselves in his way” (5). Regardless of their reaction, the people left him alienated from the commonwealth therefore leaving him with just his black veil or simply alone with his secret sin. Hawthorne uses the community to show how secret sin can affect the holder’s life just like Mr. Hooper’s. In addition on Mr. Hooper’s deathbed Reverend Mr. Clark requests that Mr. Hooper removes the veil for “judgement” because he sees no reason for the veil to remain, but with this Hooper declares that “lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” (7). This shows that everyone will take their secret sin to the