The Minister’s Black Veil’s theme is distinctive of several gothic short stories. In each every one, there is always something that is not usual and is very creepy. Also, what I have noticed with this gothic method of writing is that a lot of things start out just right and it is a little too perfect. This story follows the rules for the gothic subject in most gothic short stories. It also appeals to the expression triangle.
The Minister’s Black Veil is a type of peculiar legend about a minister named Mr. Hooper. He was eminent and commonly respected. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays this tale very fine and with a lot of explanation. He gives a good thought of what the people really thought about a spiritual leader in the Puritan society doing something so forbidden at that point in time.
The period in which this legend takes place is very key in History. Many past events occurred at that time. Many of these past events are involved with writing by many authors and journalists. People in this time frame are mostly Puritans, basically a sacred and closely joined community. When Mr. Hooper comes out and shows himself with a black mask covering his face, it produces somewhat of a commotion and uproar amongst the religious population. Hawthorne does a great job of clearing up and telling the result it had on his worshippers. It propels people into a bit of a fit.
Since the society was largely Puritan, religion plays the main position in their daily being. By the pastor covering his facade in an awful and discouraging way, it confuses everyone. No one has an idea why he has on the veil. Mr. Hooper didn’t converse with anybody about it, neither did he tell them why he dresses in it. It stays sacred. He declined ever taking it off until he died, which causes him to lose his wife. Adding these small things proved the importance and the loyalty that Mr. Hooper had towards this new idea of his. This was well portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The story of The Minister’s Black Veil doesn’t simply appeal to the rhetoric triangle, but it makes general logic. It depicts the shady side of the idealism age and shows the feelings of this precise author.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Desiree’s Baby
Desiree’s Baby is a small narrative wrote in the setting of nineteenth century Louisiana. It is basically a story of a woman who has a child and the baby ends up looking a little darker and getting accused of being black. Now no one really knows how that happens until the end when surprisingly the father is black. But no one ever even thought about blaming the father because of the way life was back then. Men’s domination over women played a big part in life back then because this created conflicts between people as a whole. This is also true because back then men were always considered superior to women. Since Armand contains a higher social position than Desiree, has a plantation, and owns tens of thousands of slaves, her has the power to master over her. But Desiree is adopted into a family lacking a valued name. Desiree is young. We can tell this by a quote a woman named Madame Valmonde said: "It made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby. Why it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was little more than a baby herself." It also seemed that she was left nameless on Madame Valmonde’s porch when she was younger. Basically Madame, Desiree’s mother, reminisces on the times when Desiree was a young girl.
Kate Chopin addresses to pathos in this story. The plot is very emotional during the story. She explains how loving and caring Desiree is when she found out the baby was a quadroon she didn’t just neglect the baby she loved and cared for it still. Though, Armand starts to not care for the baby any longer. At first he was really excited, and later since he has found out the baby was a quadroon, he didn’t want to have anything to do with it. This takes a chief toll on Desiree. The sentence where it says Desiree was so miserable that she could die shows how badly she was hurt and felt about the situation. It also showed how she responded to certain situations and what type of person she is.
Kate Chopin’s diction during the story was sometimes indistinct and unclear though she did use a lot of metaphors and similes to put across imagery. For most of the story I was unclear on some things. Like, all through the whole story, the baby was nameless, even though this could have symbolized something like the baby was the same as Desiree when she was younger. It was, at all times, referred to as “the baby”. She could have also done this because the baby was a quadroon so it might not have been commendable of a name.
Desiree’s Baby was very interesting and confusing but Kate Chopin did a wonderful job using pathos to describe all of the different emotions in the story. She went into detail about how men were “superior” to women and how they would never even thought about blaming the man for causing the baby to be black.
Desiree’s Baby is a small narrative wrote in the setting of nineteenth century Louisiana. It is basically a story of a woman who has a child and the baby ends up looking a little darker and getting accused of being black. Now no one really knows how that happens until the end when surprisingly the father is black. But no one ever even thought about blaming the father because of the way life was back then. Men’s domination over women played a big part in life back then because this created conflicts between people as a whole. This is also true because back then men were always considered superior to women. Since Armand contains a higher social position than Desiree, has a plantation, and owns tens of thousands of slaves, her has the power to master over her. But Desiree is adopted into a family lacking a valued name. Desiree is young. We can tell this by a quote a woman named Madame Valmonde said: "It made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby. Why it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was little more than a baby herself." It also seemed that she was left nameless on Madame Valmonde’s porch when she was younger. Basically Madame, Desiree’s mother, reminisces on the times when Desiree was a young girl.
Kate Chopin addresses to pathos in this story. The plot is very emotional during the story. She explains how loving and caring Desiree is when she found out the baby was a quadroon she didn’t just neglect the baby she loved and cared for it still. Though, Armand starts to not care for the baby any longer. At first he was really excited, and later since he has found out the baby was a quadroon, he didn’t want to have anything to do with it. This takes a chief toll on Desiree. The sentence where it says Desiree was so miserable that she could die shows how badly she was hurt and felt about the situation. It also showed how she responded to certain situations and what type of person she is.
Kate Chopin’s diction during the story was sometimes indistinct and unclear though she did use a lot of metaphors and similes to put across imagery. For most of the story I was unclear on some things. Like, all through the whole story, the baby was nameless, even though this could have symbolized something like the baby was the same as Desiree when she was younger. It was, at all times, referred to as “the baby”. She could have also done this because the baby was a quadroon so it might not have been commendable of a name.
Desiree’s Baby was very interesting and confusing but Kate Chopin did a wonderful job using pathos to describe all of the different emotions in the story. She went into detail about how men were “superior” to women and how they would never even thought about blaming the man for causing the baby to be black.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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