The Minister Wears The Black Veil Analysis

Have you ever thought about all the sins one human makes in their lifetime? You walk through the streets and all these people have committed at least one, possibly even more. Also it depends how big if the sin. The do not show or expressed the sins they have committed publicly which is not necessary to do. Nobody bothers to look at a random person in revulsion, because they know they have committed a sin. So it questions as to why Mr. Hooper was. As soon as the community’s minister wears a black veil, to show that everyone commits sins, including himself, the world gets turned upside down.
A minister living in a mormon community where every Sunday, these religious people began their day by going to church living a life with no sins, or so they believed. But this minister, Mr. Hooper, knows quite well that every person attending church hold a sin in beneath them, including himself. Mr. Hooper shows that he has sin with a materialistic object such as using a black veil to cover his face to expose his shame. Now, every single person in the community, including his fiance Elizabeth, begin to worry and question among themselves as to why he is wearing that veil. Elizabeth was the only one who had the courage to ask him why he wore that black veil and he should consider removing and she immediately regretted asking since she received a vague answer and knew Mr. Hooper would never reveal an explanation. The impertinence of the latter class compelled him to give up his customary walk, at sunset, to the burial-ground; for when he leaned pensively over the gate, there would always be faces behind the grave-stones, peeping at his black veil. A fable went the rounds, that the stare of the dead people drove him thence (Hawthorne). Mr. Hooper was never able to walk down the streets of his own community without receiving glares and fears of little children, due to a simple cloth covering his face. Years pass by and Mr. Hooper is dying and Clark, is the only one who had the courage to remove the veil from his face. But Mr. Hooper uses his last strengths to keep the veil on his face stating that it will never be removed. The protagonist of this story is Mr. Hooper is a romanticism character. The definition of a romanticism character with this particular parable includes having an emphasis on the individual's’ expression of emotion and rebellion against established social rules. On the note of rebellion against social rules is when Mr.Hooper as a minister, does not quite follow religious rules with the veil he wears. Although the veil is not against religious rules, the people in the community did not socially accept the action Mr. Hooper took upon wearing the black veil. To the community “ it becomes clear to the community that Hooper plans to wear the veil indefinitely, they appoint a group to speak to him about their concerns,” but it failed (Becnel). He knew it was not wrong in any particular way, but the community was not used to seeing a minister wearing a black veil forever which he hold onto his deathbed and eternity. This lead to …show more content…
In this case it is the black veil, which is a gasping object to all the members of the community but as a reader, it is more understanding as to why he wears it. Therefore there is three levels of parable. The formary and most obvious level is that a human being cannot not hide their sins from the Father above. Although people in your community may not see or know what your secret sin is or even confess your sins to a pastor, God knows exactly what you have done. Also, the minister died with the black veil and was buried with it. Mr. Hooper basically died in carrying the sorrows of sins that everyone contains in beneath them. Just how Jesus died for our sins, Mr. Hooper died with acknowledgement and carrying all the sins of human beings. The biggest sin of all, is the sin of humanity that humans are good at hiding and ignoring. Not everyone must seem to notice the sins of humanity because they are committing it