In the novel The Scarlet Letter, perhaps the most interesting and hated character
             was Roger Chillingworth. When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this book he spent a great
             deal of time analyzing and defining his characters through their traits and the secrets they
             held against one another. Chillingworth was Hester Prynne’s true husband. He arrived in
             Boston, Massachusetts at the beginning of the story when Hester Prynne was on the
             scaffold being hazed and punished for the crime of adultery. From the beginning
             Chillingworth chose not to reveal his relationship to Hester and plotted revenge on the
             father of Pearl. These actions he chose to take made him the most evil and hated character
             Throughout this novel, one sees that Chillingworth’s character traits were
             primarily negative. These traits all originated from the one choice he had made in the
             beginningof the story when he decided to seek revenge on the man with whom Hester had
             had an affair with.He wanted to carry out this plot of revenge out in secret, so he told
             Hester to never tell a soul of his true identity, and he began living in Boston as a recluse
             and became known as a very skilled doctor.
             Late in the story, Reverend Dimmesdale, the man who had the affair with Hester
             started to become weak and sick. Chillingworth, became Dimmesdale’s doctor and then
             the two became very close companions. With the years now gone by, the need for revenge
             had grown inside of Chillingworth. He had became a weak and bitter old man, who had
             aged dramatically. Once he learned thatDimmesdale was the man he had been looking for,
             his heart became full of hate and anger. He wanted his revenge desperatly but, did not kill
             the man or do anything to him, and he even continued to be his doctor. So it became
             apparent here that Chillingworth needed this hate and revenge to survive.
             At the end of this novel, after Dimmesdale died, Chil...