"the Minister's Black Veil" Symbolism is expressed in the theme of Hawthorne's short story, "the Minister's Black Veil." ... I also believe what is said in this exert from Reoccurring Themes and Symbols In Different Works By Nathaniel Hawthorne: What Hawthorne wants the reader to draw from the stories is not so much that adultery is bad or that secret sin is bad . ...

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Both Thoreau and Hawthorne illustrate this social deviance and society's intolerance of it, a reoccurring theme in the Puritan world of the 1600s and an inevitable result of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-1800s. ... Based on both the works of Thoreau and Hawthorne, social deviance and the ensuing intolerance which follows have been prevailing themes in American literature since the beginnings of colonialism. ...

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