The changes Roger Chillingworth undergoes in The Scarlet Letter
             A harmless elderly man keen on helping a minister with his mental and physical
             problems, changes in a heartbeat to hatred and tormenting revenge. Many people who
             have read The Scarlet Letter can most likely guess instantly that the man being talked
             about is Roger Chillingworth. Some may even be able to go into detail about what type of
             changes he goes through in the story, including his physical appearance ; the types of
             things he says ; what his motivation really is ; what other characters say about him ; and
             even what Hawthorne himself says. This explains Roger Chillingworth's transformation
             from a kind physician into a vengeful demon.
             Roger's physical appearance gives the reader a very good understanding what he's
             thinking and what he is intent on doing. To begin with, his small, frail body gives an idea
             of his age, and how "weak " he may be, yet he has an aura of intelligence surrounding him
             that takes away the elderly feeling and adds a wise one. This is brought out within his
             face, which, as I said before, surprisingly, doesn't make him look too old. And even
             though his features denote intelligence, they can scald and burn through what or
             whomever he wishes. Yet, by the end of the story, he seems to change all of his past
             expression and intelligence. He keeps a bit of an intellectual facade, but focuses his entire
             person into a demonic being. Roger uses his searing looks and words into a weapon of
             destruction... destruction of the soul, but, because he has focused ALL of his energy into
             becoming a "leech", he has to have Dimmesdale to torment, or he has no reason to exist.
             That is why, after Dimmesdale dies on the scaffold, Roger Chillingworth shrivels into
             Two things that Chillingworth did and said reveal how good a soul he had in the
             beginning, and how horrid he was in the end. "
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