Minister's Black Veil Romanticism

The Ministers Black Veil is about a man who is a minister. He, one day comes to mass wearing a black veil. The people in his mass were really freaked out and scared as to why he was wearing a black veil. The people in the small town wanted to know why he would wear such a thing in a church and on his face. Next, the minister went to a funeral and a superstitious woman said she saw him with the corpse. The minister was right above the corpse, the veil in between them. Apparently, the old superstitious women saw the corpses ghost shudder in the presence of Mr. Hooper, the minister. The whole town was gossiping about him and was scared of him so one day the people from the town decided that they will ask Mr. Hooper why he always wore that black

The Ministers Black Veil, for instance, has accented the fantastic aspect of human experience hence, Mr. Hooper wearing the veil. In the story, Mr. Hooper wears the veil for something like a secret sin. People, in general, wouldn 't go to that extent on wearing a veil for such a long time or like Mr. Hooper, his whole life. That aside, Mr. Hooper exaggerates the sin he may have made, and it adds more of a suspense feeling to the story and to why he is wearing the veil. The Ministers Black Veil also shows a restraint against freedom. Mr. Hooper has a veil on his face. It 's restraining him from his freedom. However, he chose to wear the veil. He has a sin he keeps under the veil. More reason to wear the veil. The Ministers Black Veil also leads to intuition adding more to the Romantic aspect to the story. The people of the town don 't understand why he is wearing the veil. Furthermore, when the minister went inside the church with the veil all the townspeople in the church were starting to get scared and worried about him wearing it. "The first glimpses of the clergyman 's figure were the signal for the bell to cease it 's summons" (Hawthorne 1), leading Mr.Hooper not sharing why he is wearing the veil. The Romantic setting also exaggerates/extends the truth. The story writer makes the secret sin a huge detail in the story that we as a reader don 't really know what the secret is so perhaps the

In Beyond the veil by Elaine Barry, I learned we become naive once we become the reader of the story. We, like the townspeople, want to know why Mr.Hooper is wearing the veil. In the beginning of the story, it talks about how the veil is a secret sin and we want to know what the secret sin is just like the townspeople. I also discovered how a simple material of veil can expand into numbers of symbols. For instance, the major one is the secret sin. To conclude, the one major thing I learned from the story was that we need to worry and take care of ourselves ad of our sins before judging other people 's problems and their sins. We need to simply just take care of ourselves and learn how to worry