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Chillingworth chooses to not forgive Dimmesdale but instead to seek revenge on him in evil ways, “He could play upon him as he chose. Would he arose him with a throb of agony?” (Pg.134) Hatred fills him and he is fueled by Dimmesdale's suffering. After Dimmesdale dies, Chillingworth withers away a year later. He had nothing more to live for.

Roger Chillingworth tries to get revenge on Dimmesdale.

Aim after disclosing to Dimmesdale reality about Chillingworth's character, Hester sits tight for the clergyman in the woodland, since she has heard that he will go through in transit once more from going to a Native American settlement. Pearl goes with her mom and frolics in the daylight en route. Inquisitively, the daylight appears to evade Hester. As they sit tight for Dimmesdale by a rivulet, Pearl gets some information about the "Dark Man" and his association with the red letter. She has caught an old lady talking about the midnight trips of Mistress Hibbins and others, and the lady specified that Hester's red letter is the sign of the "Dark Man." When Pearl sees Dimmesdale's figure rising up out of the wood, she asks whether the moving

Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth are two important characters in the story The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mr. Dimmesdale, a young minister developed an important relationship with Roger Chillingworth, a physician. The relationship between Roger Chillingworth and Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale starts off as a Doctor-patient ,and changes as they both become suspicious of each other, and as the story continues they came to be enemies. In the story, Mr. Dimmesdale’s health evidently began begun to fail.

Meanwhile, I approached Roger Chillingworth. I asked him if we could talk about us. He says he hears many good things about me. He whispered to me that the council had been debating whether the scarlet letter will be taking off of my bosom. I replied calmly and said that the power of magistrates cannot take off this symbol. He told me to wear it because it suits me best. I was shocked to see how much he has changed in the last 7 years. He no longer seemed calm and quiet. He looks more eager, almost fierce. I asked him about Dimmesdale and my promise to not reveal my husband’s identity to my lover. It seems that all Chillingworth wants is revenge because he thinks Dimmesdale had an affair with me. He will not give up on him. I threatened him that I will tell Dimmesdale the true identity of him. I challenge my former husband to pardon Dimmesdale. He replies that he cannot because we are fated to play out our roles. Well there goes my luck. I stand there watching him walk away with the herbs he gathered. I admit that I hate him. He did me wrong, seeking revenge on Dimmesdale, was far greater than any wrong I did to him. I went back to get Pearl that has been playing nearby. I had noticed that she created a letter

18th century’s perception of the Puritan Society was that Puritans were a zealous community of people that lived with strict moral standards which allowed them to live in perfect harmony. However, the truth is Puritans were overly zealous whose values created paranoia and intolerance for other views. Through the characters Dimmesdale and Chillingworth who are also falsely perceived, Hawthorne suggest they are representative of the dour living of Puritan society that is hidden by the puritan’s tranquil and utopian outlook.

Old Mr. Prynne began his new life in the town of Boston as the Physician Roger Chillingworth. The moment he arrived, the town deemed him intelligent and mild mannered; he always seemed pleasant although a little odd. Throughout the seven years he remained in Boston, his character changed so dramatically from admirable to evil that even those who did not know him personally seemed to notice an evil nature deep within his soul trying to break free.

Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale appear very similar in how they act, how their actions influence them, and how they respond to these actions. They both untruthfully seem like honorable men to the townspeople, and act as if they truly do conduct themselves in this way. By behaving like this, they delve further into sin and suffering; however, instead of divulging who they really are, they both continue making these mistakes of dishonesty. For example, when Chillingworth comprehends that Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl, he decides to take revenge, but this choice causes “a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity [to seize] the old man” (Hawthorne, 120). Dimmesdale, too, suffers from deteriorating health

Alongside the torture from chillingworth, who realized Dimmesdale's sin, and was hellbent on vengeance, Dimmesdale’s thwarted attempt to seek redemption back in Europe pushes him over the edge. He finally realizes after all this time that he must come clean to truly relieve himself of the pain, and he can no longer bear the costume of conformity in which he has been hiding his entire life. As one grand gesture, he calls Hester and Pearl up to the scaffold with him and delivers perhaps his most powerful sermon of all time. In it he touches upon all of the things that have been harming him, and his poor decisions to deal with them. He states over and over again that to truly be happy you must be genuine, not only to everyone else but to yourself.

Chillingworth made Dimmesdale suffer by exaggerating his illness, and humiliating him with guilt of his sin “a bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but an ailment in the spiritual part”. the fragility and susceptibility of Dimmesdale states clearly his weakness, moreover.

She willing kisses Hester when Hester returns the scarlet letter onto her bosom, however, the minister never wears his sin for all to see so Pearl runs to rinse off his kiss as quickly as possible. I believe Pearl in this event represents which is worse sin itself or hypocrisy, in this case, hypocrisy. Finally, chapter twenty opens in Dimmesdale point of view. On his walk back to his house his whole demeanor changed, he ignored someone he knew from church and was planning on being rude a few puritan kids. His actions confused me it seemed as if some of the guilt and evil in his heart seeped out and poured into his conscience. When he arrives home Chillingworth is waiting for him trying to give him some medicine for his election ceremony the next day. From the time Chillingworth discovered that the minister was the one, I believe the “medicine” he was giving him was actually poison. In spite of how he is feeling, Dimmesdale declines to accept the medicine Chillingworth realized that Hester had told him the

Dimmesdale whips himself to punish himself for his sins, and as his sin grew inside of him and festered there, he became very ill, he started getting very sick, holding his heart even more than usual. Chillingworth one night after Dimmesdale had fallen asleep, sneaks into Dimmesdale’s room, rips open his shirt, and right over his heart, is the Black Man’s mark, the scarlet letter ‘A’. Dimmesdale becomes even more sick as time goes on, Hester and Dimmesdale plan to leave to go to England, but before that happens, Dimmesdale gives his final sermon, which was phenomenal, and as they are leaving the church, Dimmesdale gets onto the scaffold, asks Hester and Pearl to join him “He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms. ‘Hester,’ said he, ‘come hither! Come, my little Pearl!’” (Hawthorne 376), as he declares that he is the father and that he loves them. Pearl grants him the kiss he has been wanting/needing from her, and right after, Dimmesdale collapses on the scaffold and dies. Dimmesdale is buried in a tomb and when Hester dies, she is then placed basically beside him, sharing a headstone to mark their love.

Pearl proves herself intelligent when, as a small child, she notices the prejudice directed toward her and her mother. She proves to be most perceptive when she was able to correctly guess her father without knowing a thing about him just by Dimmesdale’s actions and interactions with Hester. Most children are unaware of the issues that concern adults and instead are distracted with child games, but not Pearl. Pearl questioned the whole town for their bigoted values by asking her mother why she had to wear the scarlet letter but not her father. In fact, she was the only person that called Dimmesdale out for his hypocrisy and cowardly behavior.

Chillingworth was killing Dimmesdale with the sickness that had come from Dimmesdale’s

Chapter 10, called, “The Leech and His Patient” dictates and foreshadow the rest of the novel, The Scarlet Letter. This chapter incorporates the four main characters of the novel, Pearl, Hester, Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, whom the previous chapter names a leech. This chapter gives us the first insight on how the relationship between Roger Chillingworth and Reverend Dimmesdale would act out. The Reverend slowly becomes more eccentric as Chillingworth asks the same question that he first asked in chapter 10, “You would tell me, then, that I know all?” and all meaning all the secrets the Reverend possesses. Roger Chillingworth not only negatively effects Dimmesdale but he effects Dimmesdale relationship with Hester. Pearl even