The Minister's Black Veil
A School, Horror, Short Stories book. When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his...
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes. Spruce bachelors looked sidelong at the pretty maidens, and fancied that the Sabbath sunshine made them prettier than on week days. When the throng had mostly streamed into the porch, the sexton began to toll the bell, keeping his eye on the Reverend Mr. Hoopers door. The first glimpse of the clergymans figure was the signal for the bell to cease its summons.
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- Pages: 37 pages
- ISBN: 9780895987372 / 895987376
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It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a black veil! Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
The black veil is a Nathaniel Hawthorne's story of sin. The main character, a reverend was a common loved man who turned to a man that wore a veil. As the story develops and the people of the town get used to him denying to take it off, the revend dies. The only explanation given from him was that his veil was a mask to his sin, and... Such was the effect of this simple piece of crape, that more than one woman of delicate nerves was forced to leave the meeting-house. Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister, as his black veil to them.In The Minister's Black Veil," Nathaniel Hawthorne does a great job giving symbolism to... Hawthorne's tales always leave me puzzled and looking for more, and this story was no exception. The life and attitude of the minister was painted so genuinely that you could really connect with the character as he went through this journey.
