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loose a loved one and their kind and loving nature. Hooper drives his fiance Elizabeth away by wearing the veil. Elizabeth sees how Hooper is separating himself and it scares her away from their purposed marriage. "Hooper's fiancee, seems at first unawed by the veil. To her it is merely a cloth that hides the face she most delights to see. But, like a sudden twilight in the air, Elizabeth suddenly senses the unapproachable inner isolation of the man who wears it, and its' terrors fall upon her, too"(The Minister's Black Veil,228). As a result of Hooper pride, he looses his loving and kind nature. "Hooper is shunned and even feared by the others in their times of health and happiness"(The Minister's Black Veil,228). He concentrates so much on the negative aspects of people that he refuses to see the good in them. "He makes the dark side of people the whole truth of human existence. His own kind and loving nature is lost for all"(The Minister's Black Veil,228). Goodman Brown also looses someone very close to him. He separates himself from his wife Faith. This is a result of Goodman Brown's pride. He felt so strongly that he was the only innocent person that he could not trust anybody else including Faith, his apparently religiously devote wife. When Goodman Brown saw Faith in the forest (Hawthorne, 178) she became just like the other townsman. "He now knows that Faith's voice has been mingled with the other familiar tones, heard daily at Salem village"(Levy,118). Goodman Brown's loving nature is also lost due to his pride. He becomes separates himself so much that he can no longer hold a loving relationship with Faith like he did early in the story(Hawthorne,165). Hooper from "The Minister's Black Veil" and Goodman Brown from "Young Goodman Brown" both suffer similar fates from their pride of intellect. It caused them to be drastically separated from society, and to loose loved ones and their loving nature. Their pride of intellect chang...

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