LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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one’s own heart
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guilt
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life
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suspicion
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Detailed explanation-1: -312 the narrator states that the human heart is the “ saddest of all prisons.” Does this observation refer only to Hooper or is it true of others in the story? Anyone who cannot share shame and sin is in a personal prison.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mr. Hooper is described as “a man apart from men” and that the veil had “kept him in that saddest of all prisons, his own heart"; explain. The veil separated him from the usual community and fellowship with others. Most of the community now feared him and kept him at a distance.
Detailed explanation-3: -Symbols. The black veil is a symbol of secret sin and how terrible human nature can be. This could represent the secret sin that all people carry in their hearts, or it could be a representation of Mr. Hooper’s specific sin, which some readers think to be adultery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil" The veil is a symbol of secret sin. The piece of black cloth is a visible representation of the sins people hide from one another. The sins come between a person and the rest of the world.