the deceptive Roger Chillingworth could most certainly be considered a morally ambiguous character. Throughout the novel, Roger Chillingworth everlastingly remains misleading as to whether he lies on the side of good or evil. Even at the end of The Scarlet Letter, the knowledge of Roger Chillingworth is extremely nebulous. The mysterious Roger Chillingworth, although ultimately emanating to be evil, attests to be a challenge when determining his morality. Roger Chillingworth attempts to beguile
humiliation? Arthur Dimmesdale, in the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the town reverend and is also the father of Hester’s baby, but his guilt is overwhelming himself because he is unable to confess. Currently, Arthur Dimmesdale is torturing himself so juristically that he has developed a illness so bad that he has to constantly clutch his chest in pain. Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s husband, returns to Boston and sees Hester at the scaffold. Roger Chillingworth, seeing Hester
hypocrisy. The primary focus of the story was the consequence upon the main characters and throughout the community caused by adultery, hypocrisy, and revenge. Hester Prynne, the strong female lead, committed adultery while she was married to someone else and therefore wore a red “A” upon her bosom to be publicly shamed. Hester’s partner in adultery, Arthur Dimmesdale, deceiving the whole town by hiding his sin. Also, Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s ex-lover comes to town under a new identity as a doctor, but
In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger Chillingworth is the character chosen to play the role of the villain in the story. Although he was originally the only character without a problem or a sin, he became the one who performed the worst sins of all. Throughout the story he had slowly transformed into a man of vengeance. Chillingworth was introduced to us as a man of knowledge, thoughtfulness, and age as he is several years older than the woman he convinced to marry him, Hester Prynne
Hawthorne, the story revolves around the lives and the events of the following characters: Hester Prynne, who is the mother of an illegitimate child with the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and is now being outcasted by her Puritan community because of it; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale who is the charming minister of 17th century Boston, the father of an illegitimate child and has not had his sin revealed; then there's Roger Chillingworth who is the estranged husband of Hester Prynne who has given up a life-long
life will eventually catch up to them and make one suffer. This relates to the sins of adultery, cowardice, and vengeance. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, various forms of sin are expressed through the characters of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. As the story of The Scarlet Letter unfolds, we are immediately thrown into a dismal, sad, and tense setting. It is here where we are introduced to Hester Prynne, who is noted as being “the worst sinner in The Scarlet
The main characters in this story are Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. Hester Prynne is from New England, she married a man named Roger Chillingworth. Their plan was to move to Boston together, Hester would go first and Roger would follow. Roger never showed up, so Hester had an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale and had a child with him. Hester is shamed and alienated from the town, Hester becomes very independent. Roger Chillingworth has a distorted soul, he is unable
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne analyzes Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. In the story, Hester is the main character of the story and was called Mistress Prynne (Hawthorne 70). Dimmesdale, in the story was referred to as Reverend Dimmesdale (Hawthorne 90). Chillingworth was originally named, Roger Prynne but later in the story he changed his name to Roger Chillingworth. In the story, Hester committed adultery with Dimmesdale against Chillingworth and in the beginning she got punished and sent
which is demonstrated through its characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. This main idea hailed from the author’s deep rooted puritanism. Hawthorne illustrated different levels of his main idea through his three characters. Each of the main characters are guilty of one kind of sin such as sin of adultery (Hester Prynne), sin of hypocrisy (Arthur Dimmesdale) and sin of vengeance (Roger Chillingworth). In this novel, the main character Hester Prynne has been punished
reader. Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth are all written with their own forms of sin, and each has a unique coping mechanism for their sins and guilt. Sin, at this time, was a hugely important part of daily life, and punishment for one’s sins was universally seen as not only a positive thing, but a necessary action to keep the people of the colony pure. Both Hester and Dimmesdale receive great punishments for their sin of adultry. However, one character is portrayed as a true