The Minister's Black Veil and Good Country People



The Minister's Black Veil and Good Country People

Introduction In this paper we considered The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne's and Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor's. We characterise the two protagonists' outlooks in the direction of belief, humanity, and humility. Also we considered how these world outlooks contemplate each other.

 

Analysis It is human environment to permit personal characteristics and appearances unseeing one from really differentiating the interior treasures and standards that certain thing or somebody may possess. It is a disgrace that these traits, which are worth glorification, are not granted any vigilance due to a self-centred, minor external constituent of one's visage, personal makeup, or visual anatomy (Canaday, 1966). This widespread ascribe of the frail humanity directs humanity down the route of judgment, defective conclusions, and askew ethical foundations. However, if a individual were to wander away from this widespread and unjust terrace, his or her lesson substructure would be positively expanded to a grade far after the benchmark of humanity's mindset; granted this is the dishonourable street the widespread individual strolls along. Looking after one's flaws and defects to work out his or her factual charisma and feature is a gift that should be cherished immensely. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil  and Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor's it becomes clear through symbolism and feature that the judgment of personal imperfections can hold back or obstruct one from really getting the presents or treasures that the admonished individual could offer.

     The Minister's very dark veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a article of a life of a clergyman Hooper which departs the book reader with the feeling of forfeit but furthermore a sort of a individual tragedy. The book reader becomes acquainted with the protagonist at the vital instant of his life, the instant in which he concludes to wear a very dark veil on his face. In the Veil, Mr. Hooper and his very dark veil are utilized to exemplify the promise barricade that a easy personal attribute can express. For demonstration, just as Mr. Hooper strolled into the meetinghouse, the pale-faced congregation is nearly as fearful a view to the minister as his very dark veil to them (Hawthorne, 1837).

The symbolic implication of the dreaded and ominous crape is the personal and mental blockade that it conceives between Hooper and remainder of the widespread persons, and ...