LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
she stops asking
|
|
|
she leaves him
|
|
|
she forces him to
|
|
|
she stabs him
|
Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth, his betrothed, tries and fails to get him to remove the veil, and she leaves him. Mr. Hooper continues to wear the fabric until his death. He is asked to remove it on his deathbed, but he refuses, questioning why he should be shunned when everyone is wearing their own black veil.
Detailed explanation-2: -He didn’t take off his veil because he wanted people to acknowledge sin and this was his way of saying that he has sinned. What were the people’s reaction to when Reverend Hooper walked into the church with the veil? Everyone was astonished and rowdy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabeth is Hooper’s fiancée at the beginning of the story. After he begins wearing his veil, she is the only person in Milford who isn’t immediately afraid of him. When Hooper refuses to show his face and explain himself, she begins to fear him, and shortly thereafter she breaks off the engagement.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mr. Hooper will not remove the veil on his death bed because it was a secret sin and was to be covered for the rest of his life since he started wearing the black veil. The black veil is covering his secret sin and he does not want the sin to kill him.
Detailed explanation-5: -His veil does not act as a temporal divide that can be taken on and off. Instead, it divides him from his congregation at all times. Hooper continues to wear his veil when “on-duty” and “off, ” even as he officiates weddings and directs funerals, and refuses to remove it on his death bed.