Mr. Hooper would not let anybody lift the veil from his face even after death. A black veil can be used to teach people lessons, show sorrow, and influence the public. The main idea in The Minister’s Black Veil was that the minister was teaching all of the townspeople a lesson by wearing his black veil. While the minister was on his deathbed he deliberately told the current minister his reasoning behind the black veil. Mr. Hooper explained that everybody has secret sins.
But, he was said to be a servant of the “Black Man.” He watched Hester stand on the scaffold holding their child, with a scarlet letter embroidered on her clothing for all to see, alone. He was too cowardly to stand up and say “Yes, that’s my child, and I am just as guilty as she is.” In the eyes of a Puritan, the devil is the only thing that could keep you from confessing your sins. Evil doesn’t always come with age, but in these circumstances it seems to be unavoidable. Dimmesdale finally comes to the
However, Uncle didn’t know the truth behind this brutal and aggressive accident where Scout, not Francis gets in trouble. This accident shows the way it was normal to say about black people because parents who were disrespectful for slaves, were showing racism to their children. However, Scout accepts this phrase as a horrible thing because she knows that Atticus is not like other people-he respects everybody and does not teach Scout and Jem to be racists because it
The Reverend Hooper is condemned to a life of depression and alienation because of the veil and is secrecy as to why he is wearing it. Elizabeth, his fiancé is the only person that does not push him away. Mr. Hooper begs Elizabeth to not leave him even after he tells her he can not remove the veil even for her “This dismal shade must separate me from the world: even you, Elizabeth, can never come behind it” (Hawthorne 33)! She tries to understand him and begs him to change his mind. He end up spending his life alone because he refused to open up to his Elizabeth “She withdrew her arm from his grasp, and slowly departed, pausing at the door, to give one long shuddering gaze, that seemed almost to penetrate the mystery of the black veil” (Hawthorne 34-35).
His father despised white people and barely ever trusted any of them, which was the stem of his paranoia. Baldwin continues his life and begins to understand where his father’s anger and hatred towards whites came from. A specific line in the essay that basically sums up the Baldwin’s reason for this story would be “I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro mean, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes the color of one’s skin caused in other people.” What Baldwin means in this statement is that he finally understood the hatred his father had in him towards the whole white against black situation. It gives the impression that he never really knew what the big deal was and that he realized the hardship his father went through which led him to a gloomy and unhappy life. This line is very significant because James Baldwin himself is a black male.
Brooke Clayton 10/10/2011 AP English Language Thesis Statement Paragraph The issue I am going to address in my essay is hypocrisy and how it is the main theme of The Scarlet Letter. The main example from the novel that I am going to use is the character of Arthur Dimmesdale. He preaches in his sermons that sins hidden will eventually be found out, yet hides the sins that he commits throughout his life. He claims that he loves Pearl and Hester, yet refuses to be seen in public with them. He keeps secrets from the entire community, yet is consumed with rage when Hester tells him the truth about Roger Chillingworth being her husband.
This aspect of Pascal’s Wager is therefore nullified because it negates one of the attributes of God, which is that he is “All-Good.” Another controversial problem with Pascal’s argument is one believing in god for the sake of a reward. If one believes in God to receive a reward is that true belief? It is psychologically disturbing to believe in God because we seek a reward. God did not put man on earth to worship him like a mindless drone in search for compensation. If God wanted man
Hooper’s congregational responds to his black veil with distress and confusion. The veil instills an irrational fear into the congregation’s once rational mindset and perception of Mr. Hooper. We learn that “there was a feeling of dread, neither plainly confessed, nor carefully concealed,” spread among the congregation as a whole (26). The veil becomes a mysterious symbol for Mr. Hooper’s church members; it is abnormal and unnatural in their eyes, just as the birthmark is to Aylmer. Although Hawthorne is again somewhat ambiguous, the text suggests that Mr. Hooper’s veil is meant to symbolize the inherent sin that lies inside him (as well as the congregation).
I then told him that there was only one that walked this earth as a perfect being and that was Christ. I went on to explain to him that if you count all of the people before, during and after Christ, that was a lot of imperfect people. That's where God's grace and mercy came into play. I told him that no matter what the sin was that God was always there wanting us to come to Him. He then told me that “Christians” don't accept you if you have vices like drinking or smoking because it defiles the “temple” ( it
Secular humanist feel that religion is really a negative thing because it gives you rules to follow therefore you never really follow your deepest desires. The one thing Christians and secular humanist have in common is that they both look for the good in everyone that no one is truly bad. Atheistic Existentialism is very different from Christianity in almost every way. Christian feels that we as humans have purpose and are on this Earth to follow whatever path God has for us. However, Atheistic Existentialism sees humans and even themselves as nothing but matter and to me it is completely sad that they have no faith or feeling of value.