The Minister's Black Veil

In this story there is a Minister named or called Reverend Hooper. He basically is a priest or pastor that always wears a veil to hide his face. None the less of his monstrosity, he reveals his face to the people of his church while relating it to the sermon. They basically made him an outcast, there was allot of logic used, and he talked about hidden secrets. The author crafts this sense of creepiness but in a very understandable way using a noun or adjective.

After he revealed his true self to the people of his church, he felt disappointed. No one really understood him or his lecture because they were caught on the ugly sight of the man. After church was over people started talking about him and starting rumors which caused him to feel even worse not only as a holy man, but as a person. This comes to show you that people are immature and don't care to seek out the real answer or to understand meanings beyond physical belief.

The message revealed in this story is that there are secrets or sins that people have or carry around in there lives and that they shouldn't be looked down upon because of it. Its ironic how he feels as thought he has made a sin so wrong that his face or appearance is ugly. He feels that by being ugly, caused him pain but also grief. He also states that everybody is wearing a veil and that they are hiding secrets that relate to sins. He felt betrayed and lost the trust of his fellow, church members. He thought he could count on them to lift up their veils too and expose there long lived sins, but that wasn't the case.

By relating this to Logos I was able to see that there was some type of door that stood between the ugliness of the Reverend and the sins of others. That came to mind as though this is another message. That to find any understanding, you must look far into logic to find reasoning and answers. Its related to Logos because there really isn't any credibility, or sad situations unless it was related to the revealing of the Reverend.

None the less Nathaniel Hawthorne used a logical way to clean up his horror genre that this story is referred as. This is by far better than The Pit and the Pendulum, but at the same time hold similar characteristics. They are both made by two very different authors that seem to talk about death and evil in the world. Almost like the underbelly of life were everything dies and no one survives. In other words a thriller.