What Does The Veil Symbolize In The Minister's Black Veil

Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the story “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne it's about a man named Mr.Hooper and he decides to wear a black veil over his head and doesn't state why he wears it and during his time the fellow people from the church create many reasons onto way he could be wearing it for. Throughout the story the fellow people from Mr. Hooper’s church begin to not care for the reason he is wearing the black veil. As well Mr.Hooper doesn't let his wife into the reason on why he is wearing the black veil and he wears it everywhere and even sleeps with it on. The only thing Mr. Hooper says about his black veil is that everyone wears a black veil his may be visible but everyone else has a veil as

Hooper and as well understanding his reason for wearing it. It is thought that the black veil represents a mask that Mr.Hooper has on which hides his face of guilt of having committed a sin. Also, he has it on because the one sin he committed was killing his own friend. Although, throughout the entire story Mr.Hooper never truly states why he wears he does give clues. He states that although you can’t see his face he is not the only one wearing a black veil. He says that many others are wearing it to because everyone has committed something that they are not proud of. That everyone has committed a sin and he gives the clue that he himself has committed a sin. In my opinion I believe that Mr.Hooper wears the black veil to cover up his sadness that he does not want to spread to others because he wishes others happiness and health. Mr.Hooper being a priest gives the clue that he is looked at as a role model and mainly as a spiritual

The first one being that you can not hide hide your secret sins from God. This is considering the fact that God himself can see everything and as well hear everything. The second type of parable is that the minister is to carry the sorrows of sins committed by others like Jesus died from our sins. The minister is to represent God and his ways of knowing everyone's sins and take them and make them his problem and keep them to himself. The third type of parable level is that the sins of humanity is the greatest sin which society hides and ignores. People tend to worry about how others are doing and look than rather than worry about themselves and lose themselves to become an ugly kind of people. The people who judge by the way someone looks all chosen from stereotypes and the many different labels that are put on people created by other people. People worry about the little problems and overexploit them and hide the real problems that are occurring in our society whether its political economic and social issues. This story has a very deep theme that I particularly like which is guilt. Mr.Hooper as a minister is mentally and emotionally unstable and it drives him into a visible feeling of guilt within himself for reasons that may or may not be revealed in the story. Although are clued throughout the whole story which you quickly catch on to. The symbols of the black veil give the idea of