Scarlet Letter6
Revenge is the act of retaliating in order to get even with someone for the wrongs they have done. In the novel "The Scarlet Letter," the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, uses Roger Chillingworth to reap revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale for his affair with his wife, Hester Prynne. Chillingworth becomes so devoted to revenge that is all his life revolves around. Chillingworth then devotes the rest of his life to taking revenge on Dimmesdale. As the novel progressed, Chillingworth fits the profile of vengeance destroys the avenger. When Roger Chillingworth is first introduced to the reader, we see a kind old man, who just has planted the seeds for revenge. Although he did speak of getting his revenge, when Hester first met her husband in her jail cell, she did not see any evil in him. Because Hester would not tell him, who she had slept with, Chillingworth vowed that he would spend the rest of his life having his revenge and that he would eventually suck the soul out of the man, whom she had the affair with. "There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. I shall see him tremble. I shall feel myself shudder, suddenly and unawares" (Hawthorne, 101)As the novel develops, Roger Chillingworth has centered himself on Art
While Chillingworth was acting out his revenge plan, the public view of him changed. Once Dimmesdale had confessed and died, Chillingworth had nothing to live for. What Chillingworth had saw there, no one knows, but we know that he saw Dimmesdale's sin on his chest. "Old Roger Chillingworth knelt down beside him, with a blank, dull countenance, out of which life seemed to have departed. When Chillingworth becomes the Devil, he is doing many strange things. He devoted his entire life to revenge, and what happiness did he have to show for it? Had Chillingworth not been so jealous, he maybe might have had a better life to live.
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