Black Veil vs. Scarlet Letter
“You must needs be a stranger in this region…else you would surly have heard of the Mistress Hester Prynne, and her evil doings.”(pg 42) This quote is from one of two very similar but different stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Scarlet Letter and The Ministers Black Veil; “Mr. Hooper had on a black veil…which entirely covered his features…but probably did not intercept his sight, further than to give a darkened aspect to all living and intimate things.”(pg 266) This essay will compare and contrast the two by examining, how does the symbol affect the wearer, what is the publics reaction to the symbols, and what happens to the men in each story? The wearers of the symbols are Reverend Hooper with his veil and Hester Prynne with her scarlet A. Here Hawthorne explains to the reader that “ amid his grief, Mr. Hooper smiled to think that only a material emblem had separated him for happiness…” (pg 271) which leads us to realize that he would have had happiness but others let the veil interfere with the relationships that could have been. One of those relationships is with his soon to be wife Elizabeth. “Beloved and respected as your are, there may be whispers that your hide your face under the consciousness of secre
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 1134
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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