Question

Near the end of the story “The Minister’s Black Veil,” the minister of Westbury pays a visit to Father Hooper. What does the minister mean by the phrase “veil of eternity” when he says to Father Hooper, “Before the veil of eternity be lifted, let me cast aside this black veil from your face”? that which hides Hooper’s sins from others that which has hidden Hooper’s sins from God that which represents a life-threatening disease that which separates this life from the next

Answer 1

Answer:

What the minister of Westbury means by "veil of eternity" in this line from The Minister's Black Veil is that veil that separates this life from the next. The correct answer is the last one.

Explanation:

In this line, we can clearly see how the author uses a metaphor to refer to that thing that separates one life from the next one, the one that is supposed to take us to eternity. This is the way of the author to make the minister say that, before dying (before the veil of eternity is lifted), he should cast aside the black veil from his face. This device (the metaphor) is very common in literature and is a poetic way to say something. In this case, to lift the veil of eternity means to pass to eternity, to die, to leave the life as we know it, and go to the next level where we are supposed to become eternal souls.

Answer 2

Answer:

• That which hides Hooper’s sins from others

Explanation:

In The Minister's Black Veil Reverend Hooper's black cover is an image of disconnection. When he wears it in broad daylight out of the blue, he feels a prompt boundary go up among him and his parishioners. On the off chance that the Reverend is to be trusted, that hindrance dependably existed, and the cloak might be lifted in Heaven. This recommends separation is mankind's common condition of being.  

In "The Minister's Black Veil," Hawthorne portrays the lethal impacts that talk factories can have on networks. Reverend Hooper lives in Milford, a little Puritan town in New England, where even the proposal of transgression can make somebody be alienated. Hawthorne investigated this marvel in more noteworthy profundity in his great novel The Scarlet Letter.  

Hawthorne develops a demeanor of puzzle around Reverend Hooper's dark cloak. By declining to give perusers access to Hooper's purposes behind wearing the cover, he enables perusers to theorize about Hooper's inspirations. This puzzle fills the plot, which rotates around the craving to comprehend the criticalness of the dark shroud.