A Comparison of The Ministers Black Veil and the Birthmark Essay

A Comparison of The Ministers lightlessness embryonic membrane and the BirthmarkBoth of these stories revolve around a jalopy of symbolism. These stories, intrudece they really dont make a lot of sense on their own, phalanx the reader to look deeper in an attempt to understand the ideas that Hawthorne tries to get across. The outgrowth and most evident symbol is the faces of the people. Georgiana has the birthmark if the shape of a hand, and the gloomy veil that Hooper wore. I think that Hawthorne chooses to focus on the peoples faces because a somebodys face is pretty much the center of their being. The face is where a person shows the majority of their emotions, and it holds the brain, which well, is where e realthing starts at. So, a persons face is very important. Another prevalent symbol to me is the idea of break. In The Ministers Black Veil Hooper just suddenly one day shows up to church wearable a veil. At first the people are sort of fierce by it. People soon sta rt to flock to his congregation to discern the spectacle, and go so far as to test their courage by visual perception who will go and talk to him. I think that the veil could epitomize sin. In The Ministers Black Veil Hooper was either arduous to hide his sin from the people so that they could not judge him, which is gods job, or maybe he was trying to protecting his self from the sins of the people. In the barricade of The Ministers Black Veil Hooper dies, and sees his congregation all wearing black veils, which would likely hint that maybe it represented the sin in all of us. In The Birthmark Georgianas birthmark could represent, as some religions believe, the original sin which is bestowed on all by the hand of god. But, unlike Hooper, Georgiana could not help her markings. ... ...iana, nigh perfect, is still mortal(a), and carries the burden of original sin. This is the puritan idea that every human race is sinful. The Birthmark is in the shape of a hand because it is the work of God, make by Gods own hand and will. In short, Alymer tries to play God by ridding Georgiana of her original sin, and make a perfect being. But no mortal can be perfect, and no mortal can not eat original sin. Thus when the experiment works, Georgiana achieves perfection and can no long be a mortal, thus she dies. Moral of the story You cannot improve on Gods creation. Alymer is a sinner because he tries to be god by trying to improve on Gods creation. He is successful in improving georgiana, exclusively is not successful in improving Gods creation, because Georgiana can no endless live as a mortal, and she then dies - thus Alymer is unsuccessful.