"Minister's Black Veil" : Hidden Sins
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"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 ....
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.... veil that
resembles a man hiding his past sins. Many people do not understand or
even accept the veil over his face. Hawthorne pictures the parson wearing
the black veil and delivering his sermon along with a confused congregation
including a elder woman who says, "‘I don't like it,…..He has changed
himself into something awful only by hiding his face'"(294). Others cry, ‘
"Our parson is going mad'"(294)! The sermon in which he speaks that day is
"…darker than usual…"(294), and ....
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