A Comparison of The Ministers Black Veil and the Birthmark Essay

A Comparison of The Ministers Black suppress and the Birthmarkboth of these stories revolve around a lot of symbolisationismism. These stories, since they really dont make a lot of sense on their own, force the reader to look deeper in an attempt to understand the ideas that Hawthorne tries to get across. The counterbalance and most evident symbol is the faces of the people. Georgiana has the nevus if the tempt of a take place, and the black veil that Hooper wore. I call in that Hawthorne chooses to focus on the peoples faces because a persons face is charming much the center of their being. The face is where a person shows the majority of their emotions, and it holds the brain, which well, is where everything starts at. So, a persons face is very important. A nonher prevalent symbol to me is the idea of sin. In The Ministers Black Veil Hooper just suddenly unity day shows up to church wearing a veil. At first the people are sort of angered by it. People soon start to flo ck to his faithful to view the spectacle, and go so removed as to test their courage by seeing who will go and spill to him. I think that the veil could represent sin. In The Ministers Black Veil Hooper was either assay to hide his sin from the people so that they could not judge him, which is gods job, or maybe he was trying to protecting his self from the sins of the people. In the end of The Ministers Black Veil Hooper dies, and sees his congregation all wearing black veils, which would probably hint that maybe it represent the sin in all of us. In The Birthmark Georgianas birthmark could represent, as some religions believe, the archetype sin which is bestowed on all by the hand of god. But, unlike Hooper, Georgiana could not help her markings. ... ...iana, almost perfect, is still mortal, and carries the burden of original sin. This is the puritan idea that every human is sinful. The Birthmark is in the shape of a hand because it is the work of God, done by Gods own hand and will. In short, Alymer tries to play God by ridding Georgiana of her original sin, and make a perfect being. But no mortal can be perfect, and no mortal can not have original sin. Thus when the test works, Georgiana achieves perfection and can no longer be a mortal, thusly she dies. Moral of the story You cannot improve on Gods creation. Alymer is a sinner because he tries to be god by trying to improve on Gods creation. He is successful in improving georgiana, but is not successful in improving Gods creation, because Georgiana can no longer live as a mortal, and she then dies - thus Alymer is unsuccessful.