Pearl is now the richest person in New England. Pearl quotes “sad from chillingworth's death.” This leads to why the debt was paid. The debt was paid and pearl was free. Pearl quotes “sin paid its debt to the conscience.” The sin was paid off and now Hester and Dimmesdale are next.…
“But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? –a great red letter in the sky, -the letter A, which we interpret to stand for Angel. For, as our good Governor Winthrop was made an angel this past night, it was doubtless held fit that there should be some notice thereof!”…
Roger Chillingworth’s largest sin, because he had many, was revenge. He wished to destroy and methodically seek revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale for committing adultery with his wife and having Pearl. He metamorphosizes into a completely different character because he was so overcome with rage because his wife betrayed him. “So Roger Chillingworth - a deformed old…
Almost every story has an antagonist. The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick are no exception. The characters that allow evil to manifest itself in these stories are Captain Ahab and Roger Chillingworth. There are many differences in Mr. Ahab and Mr. Chillingworth and how they become evil.…
The main characters from the book, The Scarlet Letter, and the play, The Crucible, can be closely related. John Proctor (The Crucible) and Arthur Dimmesdale (The Scarlet Letter) share very similar character traits and the storyline emphasizes these traits. John Proctor was a farmer and highly respected townsman who lived outside of town with his wife, Elizabeth. Arthur Dimmesdale was a well respected reverend. Both of these characters shared a hidden sin, adultery. Both characters lived in the same time period but very different eras. This was a time period where religion had a huge influence on the government and acts such as Adultery were illegal. Both men had a high social status and would be ruined if such a secret were to emerge from hiding.…
Revered Dimmesdale's health begins to deteriorate, so the townspeople are elated to welcome Roger Chillingsworth, a newly arived physician, who befriends Dimmesdale. Suspicion arises with the close proximity of Chillingsworth to Dimmesdale. The physician searches the minister's interior, and enacts psychological inquiries to see if Dimmesdale will exploit his inner, darker, secrets. Upon discovery of the Scarlet A upon Dimmesdale's chest, Roger immediately plots revenge, the physician employs a series of psychologically torturing colloquies that enable deep internal conflicts. Hester soon discovers Arthurs morbid character, moreover Hester then convenes with Roger to convince hime to stop taking revenge, however Roger refuses to listen. Hester…
When comparing and contrasting two works of literature, there seems to be characters that seem to embody what the other is about, personality wise. Yet, characters also have some things which distinguishes them in an individual manner, therefore making them unique. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abigail Williams and Roger Chillingworth fit that criteria.…
Living under a strict society where the system and all of its components were based on God, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Judge Danforth from Arthur Miller's The Crucible were bound to suffer from the Puritan values which they believed in during the Puritan era. After thoroughly analyzing both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it is evident that Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Judge Danforth were notably victimized by the Puritan ethics of body politic and the statute of God as the law. Even though Dimmesdale and Danforth held different powers in their society, their positions were threatened or destroyed by the ethic of body politic, and they were ultimately…
The decisions made by the character John Proctor, in The Crucible, and by Arthur Dimmesdale, in The Scarlet Letter, were very much alike. Throughout the entirety of both books, the similarities and differences between these two male characters, and the environments in which they lived, seemed to reflect back and forth quite generously. Also, the societies in which John Proctor and Arthur Dimmesdale lived in have a fair amount of topics that can be compared and contrasted together to further backup the fact that these men, despite their differences, were very similar.…
When Chillingworth comes to America and resides with Native Americans he has a very different outlook on life than when he sees Hester on the scaffold. Beforehand, he had a far more positive outlook to the future, due to the fact that he is unaware of his wife’s affair. Chillingworth had spent years of his life attempting to gain the love and affection of Hester, and planned on continuing that course once he reunited with her. Chillingworth had been making an effort to improve their marriage. He displays this by saying, “Hester, I drew thee into my heart, into its innermost chamber, and sought to warm thee by the warmth which thy presence made there.” (63). He perhaps even expected them to begin a happy, new life immediately upon his arrival in the New World. Chillingworth also tried to get Hester to love him by paying off all of her families’ debt. He may have…
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, he describes the story as a "tale of human frailty and sorrow. This is most likely due to the fact that all the main characters go through some sort of sorrow and hardship throughout the novel. Each is unique in it's own way and has a different effect on the character. Furthermore, each character has his/her own major flaw or sin. Roger Chillingworth, for example, had the flaw of seeking revenge. This completely consumed his life, and as you will soon see, he was unable to live without it. As his name suggests he is devoid of human sentiment. He is referred to as a leech because he feeds on the lives of others in order to accomplish his goals. Ultimately Roger Chillingworth comes to represent true evil. Roger Chillingworth's outlook throughout the story and his actions were very dependant upon his need for revenge. His vow to seek revenge had a negative affect on his life and the lives of others around him. Lastly, his fatal flaw led him to suffer dire consequences at the end of the novel.…
Roger Chillingworth, the suspicious physician, is associated with the color black throughout the novel. He is clearly the enemy and is depicted as devilishly evil and cruel. Enemies are most commonly identified with darkness. Hester, who is scared of him, asks, "Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bold that will prove the ruin of my soul?" She identifies Chillingworth with Satan, the figure who tries to get people to sign his book and enlist them for evil. Pearl later also remarks in the same sense about him…
Roger Chillingworth has a strong, well-rooted want for revenge for the crimes the injustices done to him, and he goes to such a magnificent extent to fulfill that revenge that his soul was filled with evil. Chillingworth, who initially was a calm and decent man, consumed by his revenge, had "a kind of fierce thought [that] seized the man" (Hawthorne, 120), that completely controlled all of his actions. This fierceness and determination for evil doings is a very strong sin. This lust for revenge also transformed Chillingworth's natural human nature that "loves more readily than it hates" (Hawthorne, 149) into one of only hatred and…
Everybody has evil in them. No matter how nice, pleasant, or sweet that person is; everyone carries evil inside. Whether they show it or psychology know they are evil, is up to them. In the “possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, Miss Strangeworth has that evil in her and it is expressed through her age, education, and personal ambition.…
Richard to the medieval character, Vice, who was a flat and one-sided embodiment of evil.…