Scarlet Letter

At first, the townspeople loved Chillingworth, they believed that he was a divine miracle sent from the heavens to help their beloved reverend. He knows this, and he realizes, like Hester, that he stands for something, that he is a symbol of something much larger than himself.

Living in a widow’s home next to the cemetery have given both of them (Chillingworth and Dimmesdale) a chance to contemplate about sin and death. This symbol, instead of adultery and sin (Hester), stands for holiness and goodness. After discovering that Dimmesdale repudiated marriage from the entire group of young woman that devoted their life to him, Chillingworth offers that he stays with him so that he could treat him, and at the same time come up with a cure. Eventually, most of the townspeople were convinced that this person, this miracle sent to help Dimmesdale, was actually none other than the devil. Chillingworth’s room contained state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, and how ironic it was that the very room Dimmesdale slept in, there was tapestries depicting biblical scenes of adultery and the consequences of those scenes. Not just the way he acted but his appearance too. Coincidently, this leech (Chillingworth) appears almost out of nowhere just in time to come to the rescue. It seems to have started with that one sinful secret that he so willingly refuses to confess. vious his heart condition kept getting worse. Most of this refusal comes from the fact that the townspeople are so dependent on him.