Ministers Black Veil :: Character Analysis, Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne has always been caracterizado for using symbols and ambiguity on all of his stories. This is the case in The attends Black screen where he introduces the story of Minister Hooper, a apparitional man that starts expose a black hide out on his face until the day he dies. While re reading the Ministers Black Veil it is impossible fairish to come up with one conclusion of the motives why Minister Hooper puts on the veil. Since Hawthorne uses the act of ambiguity in this parable for the reader to come to their suffer conclusion, there are a significant amount of interpretations of the Ministers black veil. The reader becomes acquainted with the protagonist at the crucial flash of his life, the moment in which he decides to wear a black veil on his face. But every reader encounters the same question, why did Minister Hooper put on the veil?NEED A TOPIC time The very beginning of the story is a portrait of a halcyon everyday life in Milford - merry children are willing to ask fun of a gravers gait, spruce bachelors are looking sidelong at the pretty maidens and a sexton is tolling the bell - and its light-hearted mood contrasts with that of the rest of the story. It gives us a taste of what the parsons life was like before his decision to wear his black veil.When Mr. Hooper appears wearing a black veil swathed about his forehead, and reprieve down over his face, so low as to be shake by his breath (1) a period of alienation starts in his life. This proceeds is not expected since Mr. Hooper is a gentlemanly person (1) and has the reputation of a of a good preacher, but not an energetic one he strove to win his people heavenward by mild, persuasive influences, rather than to scram them thither by the thunders of the Word (2). The veil itself, Hawthorne tells us, consists of two folds of crape which alone conceal Mr. Hoopers features, except the mouth and chin, but probably did not cease his sight, further than to give a darkened aspect to all brisk and inanimate things(1). E. Earle Stibitz explains how Mr. Hoppers is shown as an essentially weak man, indisposed prepared by his unmarried solitude, his somewhat morbid temperament, and his professional rate to deal in a stable way with an absorbing religious idea that harmonizes with his personal and vocational prejudices(188).