The Black Veil Analysis

The story of the black veil is about a man with is the minister of a the village of gives speeches in their church. On a horrible day a maiden had died and mr hooper, the minister had to give a speech to the departed but to every ones surprise he was wearing a black veil covering his face expect is lower chain. After that mr. hopper added more by talking to the people about secret sin and that each and every one of them has one.
Romanticism is a very important topic in stories, for One thing is the importance of individual freedom in the sense that each person has the right to choose for himself. Just like in this story Mr. Hooper had to choose whether to wear the black veil for the rest of his life. This creates a stir among the townspeople, who begin to speculate about his veil and its significance.
By the next day, even the local children are talking of the strange change that seems to have come over their minister. Yet, no one is able to ask Mr. Hooper directly about the veil, except for his

fiancée Elizabeth. Elizabeth tries to be cheerful and have him take it off. He will not do so, even when they are alone together, nor will he tell her why he wears the veil. Eventually, she gives up and tells him goodbye, breaking off the engagement. In addition, other details of the story seem to link him to the death of the young maiden. He conducts her funeral on the very day he first wears the veil, and there is the speculation that the maiden’s and the Reverend Mr. Hooper’s spirits are seen walking hand in hand.
The veil can be a symbol of the ways and practices of the, as well as people today, misleading others of the sins they have committed while completely and truly facing themselves. The veil is used as a daily reminder of people's sins, undeniable truths, guilt, and secrets that they are just unwilling to admit. In his lesson, Hooper uses a parable to influence his congregation, and possibly even further on to Puritan society. The community's admiration for him turns to confusion and fear, and he is forced to live a lonely, isolated life. Many people in the congregation assume that Hooper is keeping a secret sin from them and in turn and since black veils are a sign of mourning, they thus assume death. They maybe also think of mister as a monster and had committed adultery with the maid. Even at the beginning Minister Hooper may have committed adultery with the lady who died at the beginning of the story, because this is the first day he begins to wear the veil and then caused the people to theories of why he wears the black veil.
The minster is a lot like the christian tale of jesus for example the people can not hide their sins from god just like the minster in the story and the minister explains the greatest sin is hided in society itself. The lesson learned in the story is not to have a secret sin do to every choice there is a consequence. The veil is just a symbol of man trying to hide secret sin and nothing but loneliness and darkness will happen with the sin.
Some motifs, themes and symbols are the black veil could represent the Puritan obsession with sin and sinfulness.

Puritans held beliefs of predestination and that only "God's elect" will be saved when the day of judgement comes, and this weeding out process of finding the saved versus not saved was a large part of Puritan life. And blamed mr. hooper for adultery for being scared of their sins. Hooper leads the townspeople in realizing that everyone shares sin no matter how much they try to avoid facing it. All people sin and it is up to them whether they face their sin or ignore it. Hooper tries to teach a lesson. In content, the lesson may be very much like the sermon on "secret sin" Hooper was scheduled to teach. Throughout his life as well, the veil functions as precisely such a symbol, for it strikes terror in the hearts of sinners, and they hang on to life at the end until the Reverend Mr. Hooper can be by their side, for he knows they harbor sins and

sorrows.
At the end of the story, as he lies dying, the Reverend Mr. Hooper says that he sees a veil on all the faces of those who are attending his deathbed. In this way, the major theme of the story is developed; that is, it is suggested that everyone wears a black veil, that everyone has a secret sin or sorrow that is hidden from all others.Mr. Hooper has chosen to make his black veil visible while others have kept their secrets in their own hearts. Black Veil” is that those who acknowledge the secrets of their hearts and those who choose to stand apart from their fellows will often find that they are ostracized and may well lead lives of loneliness, prisoners in their own hearts.
The minister's refusal to tell his congregation why he wears the veil or to remove it for Elizabeth shows that he suffers from the sin of superiority; he believes he is conscious of a truth that everyone else refuses to acknowledge. This spiritual pride results in the minister's estrangement from the community, and he becomes a monster whose symbolic gesture incites negative consequences. He can't tell them why he wears is they have to learned by themselves and face their sins in their lifetime.
Another theme is Mr. Hooper dons the black veil, he is immediately set apart from his parishioners in a very special way. The people of the town cannot hide their shock and many of them are immediately frightened. One old woman says, “He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face”.They no longer accept him among them as they did before the advent of the veil. The veil that so distinguishes him from his fellow villagers strikes fear in the hearts of all and causes them to dread his approach and to withdraw their friendship and companionship from him. He might just been doing this to to save himself from sin and enter the gates of heaven.
To the townspeople, hooper’s veil is a clear sign that he is trying to atone for a grave sin. Yet Hooper implies that he intends the veil to be a symbol of mankind’s general sinfulness, not any specific wrongdoing. They just think he did something wrong well mainly back they at his time of era people were very specious and saw anything they didn't understand or agreed with their religion they will immediately be outraged.
He does not give an answer about his own sin or past but merely says to all present how ill he has been treated simply because of his choice to wear the veil. He tells them they should not have trembled at him but at each other. He says he looks around him and “lo! On every visage a black veil” which indicates that everyone is harboring secret sin. With this, he dies and they allow him to be buried with the veil covering his face.
I learn that the minster was a great man who know the dark secret of society and and the hypocrites in his town that judge people like him and his business and not their own problems and sins.