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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts two of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories: The Minister's Black Veil and The Great Stone Face. Quotes cited from the texts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in Salem. Many of his stories are set in the New England area and deal with the ideas of the Puritans of early America. Overt themes of morality, sexual repression,
guilt and confession and the journey of the soul toward salvation are to be found in many of his works. Such is the case with two of his short stories,
The Great Stone Face and The Ministers Black Veil. In the Ministers Black Veil, Rev. Hooper wears a black veil in order to hide his face. It is "Swathed about
his forehead and hanging...so low as to be shaken by his breath"(Hawthorne 21). Hawthorne writes that it is as difficult to see through the veil, as it is to look
out of it. Rev. Hooper, when his parishioners ask about it, says that it is a sign of mourning and a secret sin. In fact, Hoopers sermons are increasingly about
secret sin. The Great Stone Face, on the other hand, seems more idealistic in tone than that of The Ministers Black Veil. The Ministers Black Veil sees no hope
for mankind who are terminally flawed. In The Great Stone Face, however, one sees a character who does not give in to despair, one who has hope. In The Great
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will bear a strong resemblance to The
Great Stone Face which can be seen in the natural formations of the mountains surrounding their village(Hawthorne). This story deeply moves the boy and for most of his life he
studies the mountains features and attempts to find this fulfillment of prophecy in the face of everyone he sees. That death seems to accompany the veil, in the Ministers
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