the Devil to achieve it. By devoting himself to sin, he continually grows scarier and more threatening. Chillingworth was once a kindhearted man and transformed to a monster that is completely soaked in evil. Even the public begins to acknowledge him as evil and gains the name "black man." When Chillingworth comes to visit Hester in the jailhouse, he transforms to something evil. "Very soon his look became keen and penetrative. A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed convolutions in open sight" (Hawthorne 94). The snake reminds the reader of Satan, who also took the image of a serpent. Satan is taking form into Chillingworth's body, making him possessed by the Devil. The proof of Chillingworth's sin is shown through his outward appearance completely opposite from Hester.
             Dimmesdale suffers the most effect of sin in many ways. He always fears his sin and never seems to be free from the mental effects of it. Not only is sin overshadowing Dimmesdale's thought process, but it is also affecting his work. Ironically, he preaches some of the best sermons with his sinful heart. Later in the novel, it becomes clear that the effects of his hidden sin becomes to show physically by bearing a letter "A" of his own and making him weaker. The narrator pointe
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