Evaluate the relative importance of three of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776. Parliamentary Taxation Restrictions of Civil Liberty British military measures The legacy of colonial religious and political ideas The mistake that King George and the rest of Britain made was thinking that they could forever keep the colonies under their thumb. These were not the same colonists who came over as British citizens to set up forts. These men and women thought of themselves and American citizens and they did not need a government across the ocean telling them what to do. Ultimately, Britain lost control when they gave in to the colonists' boycotts and showed them that they had the power to run a country, and that Britain feared that power. Through Parliament's ruthless taxation without representation, restrictions upon what colonists had assumed were civil liberties and British military action, Britain and the colonists were thrown into a revolutionary war. The first time a Parliamentary imposed tax threatened the livelihood of the colonies was in 1733 with the Molasses Act, stemmed from the loss of profit for the British West Indies under the Navigation Act. However, this act was avoidable and rarely paid. Following the long and harrowing French and Indian War, Britain was deep in debt and George Grenville was appointed British Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was determined to pay off the debt by taxing the colonies. He not only reinforced the ignored Navigation Acts, but he placed the new Sugar Act which was similar to the Molasses Act which put a tax on rum and molasses imported from West Indies, but this Act would be enforced. Needless to say, the colonists were not used to this intrusion of Parliament and felt that it was wrong because there were no members in Parliament to represent the colonies. They felt it was a direct violation of their civil liberties and resentment was beginning to spawn. Next was the Currency Act which disregarded the colonies paper money, forcing the colonist to pay in only silver and sending their economy into chaos. A year later, Grenville imposed the Quartering Act which forced the colonists to house and accommodate the British military stationed in their area. It was a slap in the face to have to pay for those who stood for everything the colonists despised. Perhaps the most important and controversial acts were the Stamps Acts that placed a tax on legal documents, almanacs, newspaper, pamphlets, playing cards and dice.
The American Revolution should never have happened. The British were not tyrannical, oppressive rulers although the American colonies perceived them to be so. The American colonists misperceptions led to revolution and independence.
In the story “ The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to reveal that Mr. Hooper plays a significant role in the story and shows alienation and his moral values. Mr. Hooper was a new minister in a new town and people wondered about him because he constantly wore a black veil over his face. They wanted to know what was being hidden under the veil. Mr. Hooper is trying to reveal that the black veil is representing that he is sinful, depressed, mysterious and secretive.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "The Minister's Black Veil," he paints a visual of early American Puritanism. The story takes place in a small New England town of Milford. In this town Mr. Hooper is a reverend who mysteriously wears a black veil one day. Due to the black veil that is worn, Reverend Hooper receives heavy mounts of criticism from the towns people, while rumors are also made by the towns people. Through these acts, performances of contrasts and contradictions are displayed in this short story.
In the book “The Minister’s Black Veil” is an American Romanticism story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mr. Hooper is the main character of this story. Mr. Hooper is the minister but there's something suspicious about him. He wears a black veil everyday, for couple years, and also when he died. He want to keep it on and wanted no one remove it after he died.Nobody knew why the minister would wear the black veil or why he would never take it off. May clues and reasons but none knew right. This story shows a lot of moral and religious lessons.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most recognized authors during Dark Romanticism for its authentic stories of gothic fiction. One master piece of Nathaniel Hawthorne is the short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil” where Hawthorne introduces Mr. Hooper the protagonist as a clerical man who gives its sermon at a funeral in Milford, England with an unexpected change of physical appearance. In the short story “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates the negative impact of the black veil in Mr. Hooper’s life because he becomes isolated from society. In addition, Mr. hooper is giving its sermon while he is covering his face with a black veil. People from the village, who are part of the church start to react about the black veil. For instance, “...more than one woman of
In the story we read during class, “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author used the black veil in many different ways. He used it in a positive, negative, and neutral way in his story. As we read the text we noticed that the meaning of the black veil had changed drastically from good to bad. Of course, the black veil was a very important factor to not only the story, but also Mr.Hooper who is the main character in the story.
The black veil in the story could easily be used to represent shame. The first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions shame is hiding. Hiding mistakes, hiding guilt, and hiding their face all come to mind when one thinks of shame. Father Hooper wears the black veil over his face, so that he can see people but people cannot see him. He hides his face and, subsequently, hides his guilt and mistakes from the public. Because of this, many people also suspect he has committed a deplorable crime and assume the veil also means he’s hiding his shame.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Minister’s Black Veil, the protagonist, Mr. Hooper, wears a two fold black crape that covers his face. The only visible part of his face is his mouth and chin. The underlying significance of the veil is to make people recognize their sin and display empathy towards others who have also committed sin. Mr. Hooper’s efforts toward helping his parishioners realize his message sent him on a life long journey behind the veil. His appearances out in the public displaying the veil, his fight with Elizabeth, his fiancé, and the moments before his death, fighting to keep the veil on his face, shows how passionate Mr. Hooper is about conveying the message of what the veil actually is. He wants people to become
Sins are a part of life and even if one would not like to admit it, everybody commits them. The more sins one commits, the more guilt they secretly feel. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Reverend Hooper wears a black veil to signify sins. Hooper was a living analogy in the story. The use of the veil to represent sin is successful because it has the whole parish feeling uncomfortable in the same way that sins do. Sins are something that everyone commits, and it is intriguing to see how others react to the physical representation of sin.
They had no idea what to think of the veil. They wondered if he was hiding from a terrible sin or from God. The mystery of the veil almost drove everyone crazy such as when the woman who gets up and leaves while in the middle of a sermon. When the parishioners see his black veil they think of some of their darkest thoughts. They let their own thoughts run wild and spread rumors as if they really knew why he wore it around the church and everywhere else. Mr. Hooper comes out as a romantic character in the story because he rejects the rules of being acceptable to society, whereas he continues to wear the veil whether it pleases the town or not and because he is isolated from everyone else which is generally a cause of romantic characters. Because of the wearing of the black veil, it intensifies his sermon over “secret sin” and causes more questions from the people, wondering if this was the reason the pastor wore it. (Hawthorne 3)
In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne presents the reasoning of the veil. The veil is used in the story to represent that someone has sinned. Throughout the story, the minister’s congregation wonders what he did to wear such a horrible veil, but the minister doesn’t tell them what the secret sin is. Reverend Hooper is presenting to the community that he has committed a sin by wearing the black veil, that drapes down across his face; he is not afraid to show everyone what he did wrong, and as a result, the community doesn’t judge Mr. Hooper for wearing the veil.
Mr. Hooper’s fiancée, Elizabeth, was torn by the veil. She pleaded with him “there is nothing terrible in this piece of crape, except that it hides a face which I am always glad to look upon … let the sun shine from behind the cloud” because she wanted so desperately to remove the veil. Elizabeth longs for him to go back to his normal self. She saw the goodness in him but with the veil he became a dark man. She still has a lot of love for him but eventually, she wants to leave him because of the veil. He says, “This dismal shade must separate me from the world: even you, Elizabeth, can never come behind it!” to show that there is nothing she can do that will make him remove the veil. He knows that the veil brings isolation (414). As does sin to everybody else because the sinful members of the congregation are left alone to sulk in the secrecy and guilt of their sins. Whereas the veil gives him an escape from his sins. He believes it is just something he has to do to lead by example. Even though Elizabeth leaves him he still wears the veil. He does not let it stop him from trying to accomplish what he plans to accomplish with his morality and the morality of the congregation. He is persistent and does not give up. Not only does his wife leave him. His ministry and friends leave as well. However, he never just takes off the veil like they all want him to do. The veil
The Minister’s Black Veil, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1836, is a parable about a minister, Mr. Hooper, who constantly wears a mysterious black veil over his face. The people in the town of Milford, are perplexed by the minister’s veil and cannot figure out why he insists on wearing it all of the time. The veil tends to create a dark atmosphere where ever the minister goes, and the minister cannot even stand to look at his own reflection. In Nathaniel Hawthorne 's literary work, The Minister 's Black Veil, the ambiance of the veil, separation from happiness that it creates, and the permanency of the black veil symbolize sin in people’s lives.
In the short story, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the Mr. Hooper’s black veil and the words that can describe between him and the veil. Hawthorne demonstrates how a black veil can describe as many words. Through the story, Hawthorne introduces the reader to Mr. Hooper, a parson in Milford meeting-house and a gentlemanly person, who wears a black veil. Therefore, Mr. Hooper rejects from his finance and his people, because they ask him to move the veil, but he does not want to do it. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Mr. Hooper’s black veil symbolizes sins, darkness, and secrecy in order to determine sins that he cannot tell to anyone, darkness around his face and neighbors, and secrecy about the black veil.
In “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hooper’s isolation to reveal the judgemental assumptions and moral values of the community. By assuming of the different possibilities of a sin he could have committed, the community demonstrates their true colors. When Hooper first arrives, they are swift to imagine that a grave sin is the purpose for the black veil. Also, by isolating Hooper, the town demonstrates how judgemental they are and how important appearances are to them. Finally, the community fails to realize the intention of the veil by constantly speculating the sin that causes Hooper to wear the veil.