Sin In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Chillingworth mainly sinned out of revenge. He was angry about what Hester had done and wanted to get back at her and the other man. At the end of the book, Dimmesdale ends up dying, all because of what Chillingworth did. “‘Thou hast escaped me!’ Chillingworth repeated more than once.

As an innocent young boy watches his mother being killed by the cruel bank robbers, he vowed to himself he will avenge his mother’s death. He struggled through the bitter winter but he survived through the determination of revenge. Similarly, Roger Chillingworth, from Hawthorne’s renowned The Scarlet Letter, also thrives on revenge due to his wife’s disloyalty. As Chillingworth’s vengeance eats away at him, he transforms from a courteous man to a sadistic man; since Chillingworth is the driving force of the novel, he eventually evolves into a man he does not even recognize himself. Throughout this novel, Hawthorne argues extreme jealousy can turn an amiable person into a vengeful monster.

Roger Chillingworth’s character shows evil in many ways, one of those ways is through his thoughts. From the moment he sees Hester on the scaffold he begins to plot revenge on whoever the father of Pearl is. The first meeting Hester and Chillingworth have Hester says, “Why dost thou smile so at me? [...] Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?”, then Chillingworth says, “Not thy soul, [...] No, not thine!” (Hawthorne 45). In this exchange between the once husband and wife the reader witnesses the first evil spark in Chillingworth. Every evil thought Chillingworth has stems from this moment in the story and everyone knows that thoughts generally lead to actions.

In contrast to Dimmesdale, there was Chillingworth, the legal husband of the woman Dimmesdale sinned with. Disguised as a healer, Chillingworth waits and observes, trying to discover the identity of the father of Pearl, the child of Hester. When he discovers that Dimmesdale was the lover, he moves in with Dimmesdale to torture him. Chillingworth uses his position as a healer to do the opposite of his occupation, to hurt Dimmesdale’s mind, tormenting him psychologically, and ultimately poisoning his mind. He tortured Dimmesdale throughout the whole novel and not once showed remorse for his horrible sin. He was never confused about his sin; he never questioned if it was right or wrong. This was a result of his religious views; he wasn 't religious at all in fact, he was referenced as the Devil.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's bold novel, The Scarlet Letter, revolves around sin and punishment.  The main characters of the novel sharply contrast each other in the way they react to the sin that has been committed

In essence, there were three main sins committed in The Scarlet Letter, the sins of Hester, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth committed the greatest sin because he let himself be ruled by hatred and the consuming desire for vengeance.  The overpowering vengeance and hatred felt by Chillingworth caused his life to be centered on demeaning Dimmesdale and tormenting him until the end of time.  Both Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed sins for which they were deeply remorseful, Roger Chillingworth, however, committed the greater sin because he felt no guilt.

Firstly, Chillingworth is Dimmesdale's truest enemy because of his sin. While speaking to Hester Prynne in the prison, Chillingworth asks, "But, Hester, the man lives who wronged us both! Who is he?" (Hawthorne 52). The idea that someone made him a cuckold leads Chillingworth to become angry and desire that person to be hurt. As stated in the text when Chillingworth learned that Dimmesdale was the one he sought, "…which lead him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy... He became thenceforth, not a spectator only, but a chief actor, in the poor minister's world. He could play him as he chose" (Hawthorne 96). Now that Chillingworth knows who to take

While the concept of morality has existed for some time, the exact details of determining immorality, and passing judgement over it, has varied greatly over time and between different cultures. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the protagonist, Hester Prynne, is convicted of breaking the moral code of Puritan society in committing adultery. Hester is consequently ostracized by her town for her sins, all the while keeping the identity of her lover, a resident priest named Dimmesdale, a secret. Though guilty of the same crime, Dimmesdale’s health fails as the guilt he feels eats away at his body, while Hester, still personally ashamed of her sins, does not feel they invalidate her worth as a human being. Through Hester and Dimmesdale, Hawthorne reveals his belief that while one should not run from their mistakes, neither should one let the established laws of society invalidate their self-worth.

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Hawthorne describes Chillingworth as “calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man.” (121) In his life leading up to his arrival in Boston, Chillingworth appears to have been a decent man. However, due to his learning of Hester’s adultery in tandem with the deterioration of Dimmesdale’s health, “a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity seized the old man within his gripe and never set him free again, until he had done all it’s bidding.” (121)

Through out the course of history, those who were considered sinners were often out casted from the society. This is much the case with Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. After a public trial, Hester is considered a sinner due to her birthing of a so called “devil child”. Hester is convicted to the life long bearing of a scarlet letter on her chest. The Scarlet Letter that Hester Prynne wears symbolizes the change in perception of sin through out the novel. Due to the revelations of the governor Winthrop and the reverend Dimmesdale, the way sin is perceived changes from one of shame to the idea that every one is a sinner in their own right.

Instead of seeing Hester as an individual, the people judge and identify her solely by her scarlet letter, which proclaims her mistakes. She is viewed as an example of what those who are youthful and innocent should avoid being, since she is “‘a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter [is] engraved upon her tombstone’” (54). Hester, along with her scarlet token, will perpetually be seen as the embodiment of sin, which has a cruel toll on her. Some of the townspeople think her punishment is not severe enough, but “the pang of it will be always in her heart” (45). Despite seeming confident, Hester does struggle with feelings of guilt and shame at times as she tries to decide if her actions were right or wrong.

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   Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne repeatedly portrays the Puritanical views of sin and evil.  The Puritans are constantly displayed as believing that evil comes from an unyielding bond being formed between love and hate.  For such reasons they looked towards Hester's commitment of adultery as an action of pure, condemned evil.  However, through the use of light and dark imagery, Hawthorne displays who truly holds evil in their hearts.  The one who is the embodiment of evil creates hypocrisy of Puritanical views towards sin and evil.  Hawthorne displays that those who expose sin to the public and the daylight are the most pure and those who conceal their sin under a