Comparing the Judgmental Society in Ministers Black Veil and Scarlet Letter :: comparison compare contrast essays

A Judgmental gild in Ministers sullen Veil and cherry-red garner   Our society is as well judgmental and it always has been.  Even in the time Hawthorne wrote of in The Scarlet Letter and in The Ministers Black Veil people judged before they knew the truth.        Objects were judged still though they had no relevance on what really happened.  In The Ministers Black Veil no one knew why the minister wore the veil tho everyone assumed it meant shame and that he had something to hide.  I think that the minister fancy that it was his mission to show how superficial the people were.  The ministers own fiancee go forth him because no one knew anything about the veil he wore.  Again in The Scarlet Letter,  I can think of two more study examples where an object was used as a planetary house or omen. The first is of course the letter,  it meant evil, shame, and sin to the townspeople. All it was, was a letter nought more, nothing less.   The second object that people took as a prolific sign was the weeds on a grave.  They reasoned that the weeds were there because of the sins of that person, and that the weeds grew because flowers could not.  the great unwashed then and now take symbols too deeply and meaningful.          People often take events to be meaningful and supernatural.  In The Scarlet Letter the meteor meant some great act of God or the hellion was about to take place.  All a meteor is, is a swelling of rock of that is being incinerated in our atmosphere.  As a second example, when a person was up on the scaffold it meant that they deserved scorn and irony and no mercy.  The scaffold meant you had shame and guilt and it was for all the others to see.          In those measure people were taken to mean things as well.  Hester was good hearted and almost divest but was seen as a sinful e vil person, to be avoided at all costs.  Chillingworth was seen as a kindhearted doctor only there to help people when in actuallity he was an evil, sadistic man bear on only with his complete revenge on Dimesdale.   The minister, or reverend, is seen as a holy reverent person, to be looked upon as a level of sanctitude to achieve.