Removing the Veil
Please ask 1-3 authentic discussion questions regarding Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil." Get under the veil...question the text's symbols, mood, themes, characters, and secrets. Also, feel free to link the story back to your favorite Puritan play (I'm referring to The Crucible, of course). Be sure to read the other posts before asking your question in order to avoid repeating others' observations. Remember that only half of the class is required to post these questions, but the rest of the class is welcome to do so as well.
Your questions are due by 9 pm on Wednesday night.
Your questions are due by 9 pm on Wednesday night.
posted by Kristin L | 3:29 PM
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When the author says that "he became a man of awful power"... does this possibly have any connection with the way that Proctor becomes powerful... just by doing what he considers the suitable thing to do?
Also, is the response of the townspeople similar to the response of the Salem citizens? Do they dislike Mr. Hooper and Proctor? OR... like on page 306 in our lit book ("they cried aloud for Mr. Hooper" and then they "suhddered at the veiled face so near their own") do they KNOW that they need Mr. Hooper?
Is Mr. Hooper their sacrifice? just as Proctor was in The Crucible?
"His frame shuddered- his lips grew white- he split the untasted wine upon the carpet- and rushed forth into the darkness. For the Earth, too, had on her Black Veil." (P. 303)
What does the author mean when he says that the Earth also wore a veil?
How does Mr. Hooper's veil resemble a mask?
What is it about the veil that truly unnerves the congreagation and forces them to dread it as they look upon their own mistakes?
Why was everyone afraid to ask Mr. Hooper about his choice to wear a veil?
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