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

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In I am Legend and Minister’s Black Veil characters are physically and spiritually changed by sin. The characters both rely on God to save them from their sin. Throughout the stories, Dr. Neville and the Minister rely on God because they trust Him to help them and make things right. The characters are changed physically, by sin, and by the outcome of sin in their lives. Dr. Neville and the Minister are physically changed due to their decisions and consequences. Dr. Neville’s mind moved around as he would get hurt by the dark seekers.He is thinking throughout the story and he changes people around him. He moved cautiously and cared about Sam and Anna more than dark seekers. Whenever he was near Anna, the mood changed with her, good and bad. Also, the Minister moved around cautiously because he thought people would find out what sin he had. Whenever he moved around people, they would act all sad and terrible all because of the black veil. From people’s point of view, the characters change their mood for the day, just by their presence and energy. The main characters in the stories are changed by sin and change others around them by their sin they committed. God rules over the Earth and He got mad because humans that have cured the disease were not living life like he intended. So, they …show more content…

Neville and the Minister are physically changed due to their decisions and consequences. Dr. Neville’s mind moved around as he would get hurt by the dark seekers.He is thinking throughout the story and he changes people around him. He moved cautiously and cared about Sam and Anna more than dark seekers. Whenever he was near Anna, the mood changed with her, good and bad. Also, the Minister moved around cautiously because he thought people would find out what sin he had. Whenever he moved around people, they would act all sad and terrible all because of the black veil. From people’s point of view, the characters change their mood for the day, just by their presence and

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“He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face” “A person who watched the interview between the dead and living scrupled not to affirm that, at the instant when the clergyman's features were disclosed [as he leaned over her and the veil moved] the corpse had slightly shuddered, rustling the shroud” The tone of the story minister’s black veil has a mysterious feeling. As description describes, "When Mr. Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding. Such was its immediate effect on the guests that a

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It is a close knit town where everybody knows each other. As the story progresses, it is seen how people will avoid even the most loved friends and family once there is a mysterious barrier in between them. So, throughout the story, the minister’s black veil symbolizes a variety of things such as: secret sins, a barrier, and even sorrow. First off, I think that Father Hooper’s black veil symbolizes everyone’s secret sins. In the beginning of the story, church begins and Hooper appears concealed by a black veil, and everybody is mystified.

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Which allows me to signify that another theme that this story hides is sorrow, there’s a lot of sadness and grief throughout the story. “Have patience with me, Elizabeth!” “ Do not desert me, though this veil must be between us here on earth” (242). “The black veil separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman’s love.” Hence, one of the major themes of “The Minister’s 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”( Reed 3 ).

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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.

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“The Black Veil” talks about Mr. Hooper and how his veil affects his congregation. “I don’t like it,” muttered an old woman, as her hobbed into a meeting house. “He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face” (Hawthorne 44-46). This evidence is quoting how an old woman felt about the preacher’s veil. In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards describes how God is all powerful and could remove his hand at any moment.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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).

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