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Scarlet Letter Metaphors

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne in chapter 10 titled “The Leech and His Patient” gives insight on how much evil the character Roger Chillingworth disguising by using potent metaphors. Hawthorne incorporates the four main characters of the novel in chapter 10, but reveals the character Roger Chillingworth, who the previous chapter names a leech, the most. Roger Chillingworth is vile, but just to make sure Hawthorne not only has two chapter titles describing Chillingworth as a Leech, but he also uses s another strong metaphor when Pearl warns her mother saying, “Come away mother! Come away, or yonder old black man will catch you! He [has] hold of the minister already.” (pg. 79). Black metaphorically

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