Irony In The Minister's Black Veil

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A lot of authors write books where you can imagine the setting and what was happening, or you could read and detect what secret meanings are in the story. In “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, you can read all of the secret meanings that were put into the story. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story has the theme of how we all have same that we hide, which can be supported by irony and all of the symbolism that can be found. Irony has helped out with the theme because some of the people in the story kept making comments about the stuff that Mr. Hooper is doing, from wearing the veil to pretending everything is fine. But, some of the people have been doing the same thing he has. “Swatched about his forehead, and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr. Hooper had on a black veil,” (Hawthorne, ___) writes Hawthorne. Since the black veil represents his secret sins, and by Mr. Hooper showing his, people have been making comments about it. Even though they …show more content…
Hooper’s sin. In the quote, “The subjecting reference to secret sin, and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest…,” (Hawthorne, ___), the black veil represents the secret sins, that are being hidden by Mr. Hooper, from nearest and dearest. With him wearing the black veil, he is showing his secret sins, which everyone else is hiding. This is why people are feeling uncomfortable around him, in their minds, secret sins should just stay a secret. “Such was its immediate effect on the guests that a cloud seemed to have rolled duskily from beneath the black crape and dimmed the light of the candles,” Hawthorne says. In this quote, the recurring symbol of light and dark, with the light being good and dark being evil, the dark comes over the light, just like how Mr. Hooper’s secret sins eventually came over him, because they have been hidden for so
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