Part one of term paper
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Minister’s Black Veil is a story of willful sacrifice towards an eternal cause. Father Hooper, the main character of the story, appears one day with a black veil covering his visage. Questions arise as to what is the reason to this peculiar practice. (And it remains a mystery throughout the story, one can on ...

Part two of term paper
... hide from our nearest and our dearest”- Hawthorne, reveals here, the idea that all individuals, including parishioners of the church, hide their secret sins. He presents the illusion that, we try somehow to hide our wickedness from God. This is the reason Hooper wears the veil. Not to hide his sins, but to openly declare his relationship with humanity as being a sinner. In doing this, he thrusts a stone edifice between him and humanity. He has become a dissenter, because his ideologies were ...