In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne dramatizes the conflict between Hooper’s strict Puritanism and Milford’s rather more lax Puritanism. At the beginning of the story, the townspeople are thinking “secular” thoughts as they walk to church: children are laughing, and the young men are admiring the young women. By contrast, Hooper, once he puts on the veil, seems like a paragon of Puritan virtues. He denies himself the pleasure of marriage or friendship, even though Hawthorne makes it clear that he values both of these things; when pressed for his reason, he insists that he is more concerned with his reward in heaven than with his life on earth: the quintessential Puritan tradeoff.
In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne dramatizes the conflict between Hooper’s strict Puritanism and Milford’s rather more lax Puritanism. At the beginning of the story, the townspeople are thinking “secular” thoughts as they walk to church: children are laughing, and the young men are admiring the young women. By contrast, Hooper, once he puts on the veil, seems like a paragon of Puritan virtues. He denies himself the pleasure of marriage or friendship, even though Hawthorne makes it clear that he values both of these things; when pressed for his reason, he insists that he is more concerned with his reward in heaven than with his life on earth: the quintessential Puritan tradeoff.
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