In The Minister’s Black Veil, I noticed a lot of allegory and symbolism. Th main character, Mr. Hooper, seems to be based upon a real person that Nathaniel Hawthorne must of read about. The black veil over the minister’s face symbolizes a secret that he isn’t afraid to show anymore. The minister is testing his closest friends and loved ones to see if they are trust worthy of him when he starts to wear the veil. When he starts wearing the veil, everyone shuns him and talks about him. Somehow, the death of a young woman seems to be the reason for him to be wearing the veil, according to some of the town’s people. They think that he may have had something to do with her death, and that was his way to show it by wearing the black veil for

Everyone seems terrified of him with the veil on, but he cant figure out why. It isn’t until the wedding of a couple that he notices how dreary the veil really looks on him when he looks in the mirror at the reception. When his fiancée asks him to take off the veil and he says no so she leaves him, which leaves the minister alone with no one to comfort him. Th town’s men and women treat him as an outcast and will not socialize with the minister any longer. On his deathbed, he realizes that Elizabeth had always loved him, even after she left him, and was faithful to him through all the years. When he is asked to remove his veil, he tells Reverend Clark no. He then tells everyone in the room that they all have on black veils, but the only difference is that they are afraid to show theirs. The story included a form of guilt that the minister had and wanted to show, I am not sure though what his guilt was.

Once again, in Young Goodman Brown, I found a lot of symbolism and allegory. One symbolism would be the characters in the story. Goodman Brown symbolizes a man caught between good and wrong. His wife Faith symbolizes just what it sounds like, faith. And the old man that Brown meets up with in the woods symbolizes the Devil or evil.

the first time the day of her funeral.

In Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, there is symbolism and allegory usage. The story starts off with some very good clues to what the main character is like and what the story is about. The characters in this story are from real life people. I think that the line “with a skeleton in the closet” symbolizes the Dr.’s deep,

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