The Minister's Black Veil Analysis

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In The Minister’s Black Veil, Hawthorne uses the parable of societies expectations to establish that your business is your own. Society expects everyone to be completely open with their sins and when they’re not it infuriates them. In The Minister’s Black Veil, they speak about the veil of awful sin. “ I don't like it, he has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face (Hawthorne p2).” Them being upset, afraid, and withdrawn over a veil is completely insane and overdramatic. They are judging based on appearance rather than attitude and behavior. In these particular times, higher society was morally obeyed because, others were thought to go to hell or be killed because of these high expense laws. To prove a point about