Captain Ahab Character Analysis

Roger Chillingworth is a physician in The Scarlet Letter, by NathanielHawthorne. Captain Ahab is the experienced captain of a ship called The Pequod inMoby Dick, by Herman Melville. Although there are some differences between them,Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab have evident similarities in the way evilmanifests itself in each of them.First of all, Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both want revenge on someone orsomething that has wronged them. Chillingworth’s wife, Hester Prynne, committedadultery. He seeks revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale, the man she committed adultery with.He does not plan to kill Dimmesdale, but he wants to make his life miserable. Ahabpursues revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale who took his leg while he was whaling.He selfishly makes revenge his priority, on a ship whose purpose is to gain profit fromwhale oil. He puts his desires before the needs of others.Secondly, Chillingworth and Ahab both put others in danger in order to reachtheir ultimate goal of revenge. Chillingworth is Dimmesdale’s physician; he
Chillingworth does into terrible emotional conditionand health as a result of his poor decisions and bad priorities. When Dimmesdale dies, hehas no reason to live and then dies. His death was a resulted from his devotion to evil,cruel decisions. All of his passion was put towards his single, evil goal; when that goalwas taken away, he no longer had the will to live. Ahab’s devotion to getting revengemotivated him to foolishly pursue and hunt Moby Dick, when he had little chance ofsuccess or even survival. He died in his hunt of his worst enemy.These actions demonstrate that Chillingworth and Ahab are both evil-natured menwith evil motives. Their revenge-driven minds caused their deaths and affect others. Theyhave differences; however, their evil-natures share significant similarities as