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In Michael Pringle’s essay, “The Scarlet Lever: Hester’s Civil Disobedience”, Pringle argues that in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester uses the scarlet “A” to empower her individual self against the Puritan magistrates. Using Henry David Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government”, Pringle elaborates on the significance of the scarlet letter, and prove it to be a symbol of Hester’s defiance within her community. After reading the article, it is confirmed that Hester’s embroidered “A” allows…

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…

The author of “The Black Veil”, Nathaniel Hawthorne, creates a theme that exposes the idea that everyone has a secret sin and should not be quick to judge someone because they sin differently than you. “On every visage a black veil,”(493) this quote shows how the author believed everyone had a secret sin, or black veil, covering their face. The author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards, shows the reader a theme stating that all sinners will perish in Hell and that the…

"The Minister’s Black Veil" – Study Questions 1. What does Mr. Hooper do that makes the congregation uncomfortable? (Notice Hawthorne's descriptive writing!) Mr. Hooper begins to wear a Black Veil over his face at all times. The congregation sees this, and automatically perceives the black veil as a negative entity. Mr. Hooper never takes off the veil, and thus the story spreads. 2. What are some of the reactions of the members of the congregation on the first Sunday? The reactions of the…

The Scarlet Letter and The Minister’s Black Veil reveals how secrets and sins play an important role in how people view each other. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces Hester Prynne as a tall young woman whose striking beautiful come to live in Boston with absent of her husband. As the story progresses you begin to see her as a woman with secrets. The secrets she reveals being sinful resulting in her having to wear the scarlet letter as punishment. An affair with a…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is an eminent literature writer from the 1800’s. In his stories, he portrays symbolism in even the most intricate details you would not expect. Symbolism is the art of, “using symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense” (Symbolism). Hawthorne focuses most of his stories on the puritan life style, in which most of the symbolism is originated from. In most of his widely-known stories like “The Scarlet…

The Ministers Black Veil is a conceptual story with a meaningful theme to be learned from whether it be that several of us shadows behind a symbolic veil to conceal our sin, People should be less concerned of others sins and serve to redemption for their own sins. The Black veil combines countless symbolizations to the story and though we still do not fully comprehend what Minister Hooper's intentions were with the veil. This story was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is a Romantic writer,…

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an eighteenth-century writer that lived in Salem, Oregon. He was a descendant of the judge, John Hathorne, of the Salem Witch Trials. These trials are said to have inspired his writing; in most of his books, there is a ruler that cruelly oppresses people. This is a depiction of John Hathorne and Nathaniel’s other ancestors, whom he outrightly denounces (Brooks). Many of Hawthorne’s works are based upon “the guilt that [he] felt over the actions of his ancestors” (Fider).…

“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.” (Hawthorne). In the Minister’s Black Veil, Nathaniel Hawthorne evokes the idea there is a dark side of humanity and that humans have secrets and sins hidden away from their loved ones. Hawthorne emphasizes that personal sacrifices must be made during one’s lifetime for those you love even if it means giving…

In “The Minister's Black Veil” does not necessarily write about love. “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.” (Hawthorne 5) This means that Mr.Hooper could wear a black veil but it’ll be weird for the people because they only women would wear it and not men. The people think it’s strange for a man to wear a black veil because nobody hasn’t seen a man wearing a black veil…