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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 thi ....

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.... 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 opposite of the majority. The people, question his sanity and form hypothesis’s on his reason for wearing the veil. He becomes feared by the children, ostracized from his former society, and imprisoned in his own heart. The veil symbolically serves multiple purposes. First and foremost, the veil serves to keep Hooper’s face from anyone, who considered him a role model, which, ironically is everyone. He felt that it was inappropriate to be a role model, when he himself had “sorrows dark enough to be ....