"The Minister's Black Veil", a literary masterpiece written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a divergent parable for the period it was written. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote as an anti-transcendentalist in the transcendentalist period; as a result, his view's in writings were mostly pessimistic considering his family's sinfulness. Hawthorne's grandfather was a judge in the Salem witch trails; for that reason, he was responsible for over twenty innocent deaths by mistrial. In addition, a reader can easily see the pessimism in his writing, and many hypothesize that his family's past has a part in his style. In the "The Minister's Black Veil", Hawthorne shows a great deal of pessimism through a minister who feels that he is too sinful to show his face. The mini
In the next section of the parable, Mr. Hopper fronts the bewildered town at a funeral of a young lady. The parson is still wearing his black veil, even while he conducts the sermon for the funeral; however, the townspeople still thinks abstract thoughts about of their parson. The ladies of the town are exclaiming , '"The black veil, although it covers only the pastor's face, throws it's influences over the whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot'"(296). Even one of the women at the funeral spoke, '"I had a fancy.....that the minister's and the maiden's spirits were walking hand in hand"'(297). The woman speaks of the parson as being ghostlike or even dead just because Hopper is wearing the mysterious black veil. Hawthorne shows this inhuman actions by writing, " The corpse h
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