The Transformation of Roger Chillingworth
In the Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a young woman is caught up in sin between two men and bound to wear a letter "A" on her chest. All three of the main characters are sinners. Hester Prynne commits adultry on her husband, Roger Chillingworth, with a minister of the name Arthur Dimmsdale. Roger Chillingworth undergoes a change that transforms him from a respectable gentleman, to a suspicious, determined man, and finally to a man compared to the devil. In the beginning of the novel, Chillingworth is seen as a highly respectable medicine man. At first, the reader almost wants to sympathize with the old man because of his physical appearance and because of the fact that his wife has a baby with another man. But then, one realizes that Chillingworth's first sin was marrying Hester because he knew she never really loved him. He admits this to her while they aer speaking in the jail cell. "Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed they budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay." Chillingw
Chillingworth's transformation to becoming the devil is now complete. was haunted either by Satan himself, or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth. "Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven and won into his kingdom. Finally, Chillingworth discovers the letter "A" carved into Dimmsdale's chest. that Heaven had wrought an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic, from a German university, bodily through the air, and setting him down at the door of Mr. While Hester is talking to Chillingworth one day she notices how different he is. Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed . It seemed to be his wish and purpose to mask this expression with a smile; but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so derisively, that the spectator could see his blackness all the better for it . orth wants to know who the father of Hester's baby, Pearl, is, but she will not tell. At first, his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like. So, consequently, after Dimmesdale reveals his secret to the world, Chillingworth dies because he has nothing left to live for. At first, the Puritans receive Chillingworth well, thinking that he will help Dimmsdale. He is no longer the scholar he used to be, who dedicate his best years "to feed the hungry dream of knowledge.
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