Comparing Sin In I Am Legend And Minister's Black Veil

Guilt: God’s Gift that Keeps on Giving The Puritan religion’s view on sin consists of the belief that all puritans should live a sanctified life. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works, The Scarlet Letter, and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Reverend Dimmesdale (The Scarlet Letter), and Minister Hooper (“The Minister’s Black Veil”) are both leaders in the Puritan church. Amongst their superior roles, they both committed sin against God’s will. Consequently, for their inappropriate acts, Dimmesdale and Hooper both live the rest of their lives striving for redemption.

Both texts reveal its own approach to similar ideas, leaving its audiences intrigued. In both written works, similar themes and styles are shared. Through literary devices, syntax, and tone, each story develops a theme around sin. For example, in “The Minister’s Black Veil,” the veil symbolizes sin.

After reading both of the text “The Minister 's Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards they’re various similarities and differences can be noted, especially toward the attitudes of sin and guilt. In the story’s the are just portrayed a little bit different. In both stories the feel that sinning is horrible and should be frowned upon. In the story the “Minister 's Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne wants the reader to know that Reverend Hooper is wanting to hide his past sins.

So much that they even spread rumors on why he did it without even asking him why he did put on that veil. They were making an assumption that Mr. Hooper had gone mad. This issue is further seen when it states that, “A rumor of some unaccountable phenomenon had preceded Mr. Hooper into the meeting-house, and set all the congregation astir.” This statement justifies my claim that when people see change, they think that the person who made that change is weird, and sometimes even completely change how we see the person in general. As a whole we can see that even a small change can make a difference on how people act towards you, and how they will treat you because of that

After a while he got desensitized towards it, and just accepted what he saw as a fact of life. Neville also became accustomed to being alone. He was by himself for years, and in that time he changed from needing a companion to being fine all alone. His interactions with Ruth show that he has lost his ability to lie and his voice is “devoid of warmth, that it was the harsh sterile words of a man who had lost all touch with humanity.” ( Matheson

He then thinks about the past, in which he and Virginia were in bed and Virginia was feeling extremely weak. Neville persuaded her to stay in bed and they then discussed the frequent dust storms, that were a consequence of the recent war, and even mosquitoes were an issue, which worried them due to the diseases that could be spread. Robert Neville then investigates some of the factors that harm vampires. He first studies the components of garlic, but eventually is unable to find a substance in it that specifically harms them. Next, he wonders why crosses cause them to become so terrified.

The author uses deep emotions to describe the scene of the “Black Veil”. The passage uses older, outdated and uncommon language. First point of view was in the passage. Mr. Hooper says “Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil”. “Me” in the quotation marks is one example of first point of

In the two texts, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards and “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Hawthorne, the two texts had a lot in common, both was trying to persuade sinners to get right with God before their time is too late. In the text “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God, Edwards was trying to get across the sinners’ mind that it is because of God’s hand holding back because they haven’t fell into the pit of hell. In constrast the text,“The Minister’s Black Veil”, the author came out and said what he wanted to say, more than the author of the text “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”. The text “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, by Edwards the author was trying to get sinners to give their lives to God and stop doing what they’re doing.

However, true Christianity comes with knowing that we are and never will be perfect, but that God is strong in our weaknesses. Therefore, there is really no reason for the minister to be hiding behind his veil. Another example of irony in “The Minister’s Black Veil” comes with the initial reaction of the people. At first, they look at their own minister and the veil he is wearing in horror (Hawthorne 281).

In “The Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards both have a similar yet different style of writing and delivery.however Edwards gave more detail to make to his sermon which made it more effective than Hawthorne were his was of an inference to the theme. Edwards and Hawthorne diction was archaic, the themes of the texts was that everyone is a sinner whether a black veil is upon a face or hanging from the hand of God. In the same fashion way, the themes from “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” are similar. For example, both themes centers on sinners/sins.

A certain darkness encompasses each of these stories and helps represent the recurring themes of evil and sin throughout them. In conclusion, “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “Young Goodman Brown” are both strongly based in religion, contain symbolism, and share a dark mood. These elements enrich the stories by conveying the important points included in each one. Hawthorne synthesizes these elements in much of his literature, which explains how these stories are beautifully woven together like a well-crafted

He refuses to remove it and people speculate that he is hiding something. Both works have many Gothic elements, such as sin and death, in them. However, “The Minister’s Black Veil” also has some Romantic elements such as individualism and focus on solitary life. Both works were from different writers, and written in different styles, but used imagery, figurative language, and symbolism to enhance their themes. To begin with, Romantic and Gothic writers used imagery to appeal to the senses of the audience and put them in the story with the characters.

The themes that are portrayed by the veil reveals, the tension between the minister and the community. Every person has something to hide from the world, the veil is symbolic for the cover up of the people’s secrets. Although most people would not wear a veil to hide their secrets from others, the minister is proving a point. By wearing a simple black veil Mr. Hooper is making all the villagers evaluate their everyday actions closely. The symbolic value of the black veil creates a dilemma that it between the minister and his environment, and the guilt that the veil also conveys.

What can you expect from a minister from changing persona where people use to see him as a “gentlemanly men, of about thirty, though still a bachelor, was dressed with due clerical neatness.” Then have a change in his appearance where it drastically changes his life. By a piece of cloth over his head accounts reactions of the congregation to it, the veil, a black veil that changed the image and the reactions of the people from Westbury. It is just a man, Mr.Hooper, who Hawthorne is modulating between dramatic incidents involving the black veil and Mr.Hooper approaches dramatic reactions towards it, in the short story the “Minister’s Black Veil”. The key symbol of the short story is the black veil it represented the spiritual isolation between

In the Minister’s Black Veil, the black veil has a great significance to the story. The black veil symbolizes the secret sin in society. The sins of humanity are the greatest sin which society hides and ignores. People do not take account of the bad deeds that are going on every single day. This Parable does an outstanding job of doing that because Mr. Hooper goes on with his day normally, but by having that veil on his face it exemplifies that sin is occurring.