Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil” is a very odd story. In, summary it was about a well-respected minister who, all of a sudden, starts to wear a black veil in front of his face. No one really knows why he wears it but he says that the veil symbolizes sin and that everyone has their own veil they wear too. People begin to fear him and not take him seriously. At the end of the story he dies with the veil on and no one ever sees his face revealed again. I believe he wore this veil to show the people that he did sin and that he is ashamed of it. Almost like a punishment from God. Today people cheat, steal and do inexcusable things that they are ashamed of. This was his way to show how ashamed he was, that he never wanted to take it off. He wanted to show that everyone sins and holds it in them so no one will know, but deep inside that sin is eating you up inside. As the story goes on, the town people started to neglect him because they though of this veil as a separation from them and the minister they loved so much. This kind of shows how people now, especially teenagers judge people from what they wear. They criticize but have no idea what the reason or logic behind why they wore that certain piece of clothing.
The other story by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The New Adam and Eve" was very confusing all I could really understand was that it was a modern version of the Adam and Eve in the Bible. They went into places lie banks, jewelers, churches and other places that were never in the real Adam and Eve. They were clueless of why they were sent to this usual world. The way they explained the atmosphere seemed as if everyone had just, all of a sudden, got up and left, leaving food and money. I looked EVERYWHERE for an analysis on this story and I could not find one anywhere. If anyone knows what this story means or what its moral message is I need help. I do not get it.
I can see how it is put in the category of romanticism. It is very dream like and you really have to look deep to find answers. A lot of questions run through your mind while reading it. For me, it kind of reminded me of The Road because it seemed like they came to a city after an apocalyptic event occurred but in this story nothing was damaged.
Also at the end, did they pick up a baby or did eve have one?
The short story, "The Minister's Black Veil" can definitely put to the Dark Romanticism category. Hawthorne was known for writing dark romanticism pieces. The imagery he put in kind of gives you the image of a place with not much sun and a very eerie city. It reminds me of a Tim Burton movie, like the "Corpse Bride".
"The Minister's Black Veil", by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story about a minister who begins to wear a black veil in front of his face. He told the people of the church that the veil, in theory, was a symbol for sin. In addition, he told them that they too had their own veil that they war. One by one, people begin to become afraid of the minister. In the end, he ends up dying with the veil still on his face. Along with Laila, i too think, he wore the veil to let everyone know that he commits sin. But unlike Laila, i believe that he was showing everyone that because he wanted to show them that everyone commits sin and only when you can admit that you do are you able to be forgiven. But I think that your perspective, Laila, is very interesting and i can see how it relates to the story.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's other short story, "The New Adam And Eve" I could clearly see the relationship between the short story and the connection it had to the romanticism time era. However, it was one of the most confusing pieces of literature that i have ever read. I did not understand most of the story, only that it was a very far off version of the story of Adam and Eve in the bible. If anyone could explain it to me that would be great!, cause i have no idea what the author was trying to portray.
In summary it was about a well-respected minister who, all of a sudden, starts to wear a black veil in front of his face. No one really knows why he wears it but he says that the veil symbolizes sin and that everyone has their own veil they wear too. People begin to fear him and not take him seriously. At the end of the story he dies with the veil on and no one ever sees his face revealed again. I believe that by wearing this veil, he was trying to show people that he had competed a really bad sina nd was trying to bring justice but, no one cares. As the time progresses they found him strange and disconnected. this reminds me of how people look and judge us teenagers on what we wear rather then who we are and what our personality is.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil” is a very odd story. In, summary it was about a well-respected minister who, all of a sudden, starts to wear a black veil in front of his face. No one really knows why he wears it but he says that the veil symbolizes sin and that everyone has their own veil they wear too. People begin to fear him and not take him seriously. At the end of the story he dies with the veil on and no one ever sees his face revealed again.
I believe he wore this veil to show the people that he did sin and that he is ashamed of it. Almost like a punishment from God. Today people cheat, steal and do inexcusable things that they are ashamed of. This was his way to show how ashamed he was, that he never wanted to take it off. He wanted to show that everyone sins and holds it in them so no one will know, but deep inside that sin is eating you up inside.
As the story goes on, the town people started to neglect him because they though of this veil as a separation from them and the minister they loved so much.
This kind of shows how people now, especially teenagers judge people from what they wear. They criticize but have no idea what the reason or logic behind why they wore that certain piece of clothing.
The other story by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The New Adam and Eve" was very confusing all I could really understand was that it was a modern version of the Adam and Eve in the Bible. They went into places lie banks, jewelers, churches and other places that were never in the real Adam and Eve. They were clueless of why they were sent to this usual world.
The way they explained the atmosphere seemed as if everyone had just, all of a sudden, got up and left, leaving food and money.
I looked EVERYWHERE for an analysis on this story and I could not find one anywhere. If anyone knows what this story means or what its moral message is I need help. I do not get it.
I can see how it is put in the category of romanticism. It is very dream like and you really have to look deep to find answers. A lot of questions run through your mind while reading it.
For me, it kind of reminded me of The Road because it seemed like they came to a city after an apocalyptic event occurred but in this story nothing was damaged.
Also at the end, did they pick up a baby or did eve have one?
The short story, "The Minister's Black Veil" can definitely put to the Dark Romanticism category. Hawthorne was known for writing dark romanticism pieces. The imagery he put in kind of gives you the image of a place with not much sun and a very eerie city.
It reminds me of a Tim Burton movie, like the "Corpse Bride".
"The Minister's Black Veil", by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story about a minister who begins to wear a black veil in front of his face. He told the people of the church that the veil, in theory, was a symbol for sin. In addition, he told them that they too had their own veil that they war. One by one, people begin to become afraid of the minister. In the end, he ends up dying with the veil still on his face. Along with Laila, i too think, he wore the veil to let everyone know that he commits sin. But unlike Laila, i believe that he was showing everyone that because he wanted to show them that everyone commits sin and only when you can admit that you do are you able to be forgiven. But I think that your perspective, Laila, is very interesting and i can see how it relates to the story.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's other short story, "The New Adam And Eve" I could clearly see the relationship between the short story and the connection it had to the romanticism time era. However, it was one of the most confusing pieces of literature that i have ever read. I did not understand most of the story, only that it was a very far off version of the story of Adam and Eve in the bible. If anyone could explain it to me that would be great!, cause i have no idea what the author was trying to portray.
In summary it was about a well-respected minister who, all of a sudden, starts to wear a black veil in front of his face. No one really knows why he wears it but he says that the veil symbolizes sin and that everyone has their own veil they wear too. People begin to fear him and not take him seriously. At the end of the story he dies with the veil on and no one ever sees his face revealed again. I believe that by wearing this veil, he was trying to show people that he had competed a really bad sina nd was trying to bring justice but, no one cares. As the time progresses they found him strange and disconnected.
this reminds me of how people look and judge us teenagers on what we wear rather then who we are and what our personality is.
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