. Hopper though did not hide totally behind this veil he still spoke very kindly to people and carried out his daily activities like he had done before. Over time this veil became more then a simple piece of crepe paper. The townspeople and visitors made it a key factor in the town. It became a gossip issue for everyone and was readily spoke of. They considered him mad or that he was so ashamed of a horrid deed that he could never show his face again. People ran and shuttered from him all because of his black veil. On his deathbed he explained that all should have a black veil because we live in sin. Mr. Hooper simply decided to wear his veil. He was buried in his veil and got his wish to never show his human face. In this story a man is persecuted for his belief but if the people had looked past the veil they would have realized what great and righteous a man Mr. Hooper truly was.Finally, The Birthmark is a story of perfection and what is pure beauty. Georgiana was married to a philosopher and man of chemistry, Aylmer. Georgiana was a beautiful and breathtaking woman. The only imperfection about her was a crimson hand shaped birthmark on her right cheek. Her husband couldn't get over it. It made him shudder and cringe with just one sight of it. He would tell her she would be perfect if she were to have it removed. Some called it a sign of beauty but to Aylmer it was an imperfection on his almost perfect wife. He wanted so badly to remove it that it started to drive the both of them mad. She finally gave in and let him remove it. Upon removing the blemish though it freed the perfect angel inside of her and caused his wife to pass on. The closest thing to earthly perfection was freed. These stories have all had key religious symbolism in them. First in Young Goodman Brown, the young man had a struggle with good and evil. HE desperately wanted to go back to his faith but seeing all of his contemporaries living a life of darkness caused h...
