He wears the black veil as a symbol of this sin. Members of the congregation are able to ignore their sinfulness because it is hidden. However, the black veil forces them to see the reality of sin because it is superficial. .
"Among all its bad influences, the black veil had the one desirable effect, of making its wearer a very efficient clergyman. By the aid of his mysterious emblem - for there was no other apparent cause - he became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin. His converts always regarded him with a dread peculiar to themselves, affirming, though but figuratively, that, before he brought them to celestial light, they had been with him behind the black veil," (p. 20). .
Seeing a religious leader marked by sin troubles Mr. Hooper's congregation as the sinfulness of pious people troubled Goodman Brown. As a preacher, Mr. Hooper knows that man is born into sin, yet still will not live normally. The sin of the world terrifies him in the same manner that the black veil terrifies his congregation. .
"At that instant, catching a glimpse of his figure in the looking-glass, the black veil involved his own spirit in the horror with which it overwhelmed all others. His frame shuddered, his lips grew white, he split the untasted wine upon the carpet, and rushed forth into the darkness. For the Earth, too, had on her Black Veil," (p.15).
Mr. Hooper becomes obsessed with hating the sinful world. Although opposing sin is good-natured, nothing in excess is ever beneficial. Mr. Hooper's black veil ultimately causes people to shun and fear him.
Aylmer of "The Birthmark" has an alchemistic view that prevents him from being satisfied with mortal life. Like Goodman and Mr. Hooper, he wants mankind to be flawless. Only he sees the birthmark of his wife, Georgiana, as an imperfection, "a crimson stain upon the snow," (p.149). Aylmer sees himself having divine powers. In wanting to control nature, Aylmer is taking on the role of God; ""Noblest, dearest, tenderest wife," cried Aylmer, rapturously, "doubt not my power,"" (p.
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In Hawthorne's tale, why does the minister wear a black veil? The minister in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil- wears a black veil because Hawthorne is trying to communicate to the reader that all people, whether we can actually see it or not, have a veil that separating them from eternal goodness. ... - Hawthorne is saying through his character Hooper that all people have sin and that it is only by confronting that sin that one can delivered from it. ...
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