Roger Chillingworth Character Analysis

The character of Roger Chillingworth has been presented to audiences as a spiteful and conniving old man through imagery by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne does not stop at just imagery either , he uses his full literary Arsenal in chapter 10 to ensure the audience is aware of Chillingworth's true and vile nature.

At the beginning of the chapter Hawthorne uses a matter of fact tone when describing Chillingworth past. This description of Chillingworth gives the audience a basis of his past personality to contrast the stern, yet fair, individual he was into the devilish creature he has become. Directly after this contrast, Hawthorne immeadiatly shows in the audience what Chillingworth's change made him capable of . Hawthorne describes Chillingworth