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Essay / The Minister's Black Vail as Art - 1804
Art is Art is HawthorneWhen an author (artist) can materialize his emotions, his thoughts, his ambitions and his inner self, he has achieved the form of The most expensive art and the work of art can never mean as much to anyone as the one who created it. The artist does not and cannot completely interpret due to the ever-increasing realistic attributes that art/literature has adopted. Therefore, Hawthorne himself could not put into words an interpretation of the Minister's Black Vail because the story itself is an interpretation of something that lives inside the author, a feeling that does not can only be felt. In this literary figuration, the portrait, there is no morality. Nathanial Hawthorn used the whole story to create or arouse a particular emotion, a type of “image” that resembles something else. In the Minister's Black Veil, Hawthorne creates a partial "portrait" of his own emotions and soul, emphasizing the pain that isolation, alienation, and loneliness bring to someone like an artist . different ways, but it is best to determine the possible validity of the argument by trying to see the piece in its entirety, considering all sides of the story. The intended idea was created in history, history was created by man, and man was created by society, these are all contributors to the Minister's Black Veil, perhaps as much as the words. To consider the text The Minister's Black Veil, without taking into account the above, is to see the play in an incomplete way. We must consider the story in its entirety, unless we believe: “A story is a story, it is a story.” As a precursor, we must come to a common understanding that: Literature is an art and has many mediums. Medium is the material or technique with which an artist works (Dictionary.com), for example: photographs, pastels, canvas, paper, ink, etc. There are technical, recreational and otherwise artistic uses for all mediums . A small child taking photos of a puppy with a disposable camera, a journalist taking close-up photos of a sporting event, and an artist taking close-up photos of dew dripping from a tree are all uses different from the same medium in photography. . Literature can be created with many different intentions and reasons, but trying to determine that something is not art based on the motivation or intentions of the artist makes no sense..