... one Sunday with a black veil draped over his face. No one quite knows the reason for this unaccountable phenomenon, and no one fancies it. Mr. Hooper has a reputation as a good preacher. But as a result of wearing the veil, Mr. Hooper becomes "a man apart, isolated from love and sympathy, suspected and even feared by his congregation." During his sermon, " even the most ... innocent girl felt as if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded deeds and thoughts." With just the simple act of wearing this piece of crepe over his face, Reverend ... ...

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"The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel in which a lonely woman, Hester Prynne, commits adultery with a preacher, Reverend Dimmesdale, while her husband is away. When leaders of the village learn of Hester's sin they punish her by forcing her to wear the letter "A" on her ... ...

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... him and them" (Hawthorne 393). Hawthorne is unclear about what is it that Mr. Hooper could be hiding. The question is, what sin is so bar that this simple preacher does not want himself, God, or anyone else to see? Perhaps because he is a pastor he felt the need to hide his face in shame because of something he had ... ...

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... Dimmesdale, as Hester took part in the adultery. His other greatest sin was hypocrisy, "Dimmesdale who loves truth, lives a lie. He sinks deeper in to falsehood and becomes a powerfully effective preacher of the truth."" The covertness of Dimmesdale tore away at his soul until his lie is expunged by his public confession ( Steward 171). Roger Chillingsworth's sins are numbered like the ... ...

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... for Adultery but for Able for people believed she was able to do all kinds of good things. Another one of the key characters is Mr. Dimmsdale, whom is the preacher for the church and also committed adultery with Hester but does not admit to committing adultery until the end of the story. When Hester is confronted about committing adultery she ... ...

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... be hard staying around the people who knew her sins but she still stayed. "Throughout them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman's frailty and sinful passion-. That is a sign of a strong women, because I would think most ... ...

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... letter "A" on her mother's blouse. Pearl doesn't know the meaning of it, but seems to have some sort of knowledge of the connection between the letter, her mother, and the preacher. She is determined to find out some truth of this mystifying letter. Pearl also seems to have foreknowledge of the wicked deeds of Roger Chillingworth. While Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are ... ...

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... , they had been with him behind the black veil," (p. 20). Seeing a religious leader marked by sin troubles Mr. Hooper's congregation as the sinfulness of pious people troubled Goodman Brown. As a preacher, Mr. Hooper knows that man is born into sin, yet still will not live normally. The sin of the world terrifies him in the same manner that the black veil ... ...

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