From fairy tales to mythologies, from fables to romances to the simplest short stories in a third grade book, almost all often include a diagram of heroes versus villains, and good versus evil. Likewise, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne also contains many of the same situations and characters with their own symbolic meanings that allow them to express strong and demanding feelings through the symbols they carry. Hester Prynne, who appears as a sinful woman, a disgrace to society, is created to represent the goodness of the story. Ironically, her husband, Chillingworth, who initially appears to be an intelligent and honorable man, is created to symbolize demonic evil. It symbolizes the hidden sin and immorality that exists within Puritan society. As an honorable and intelligent man who foolishly enslaved himself to the work of the devil, Roger Chillingworth turns his life of kindness and intellect into a never-ending obsession with revenge, ultimately leading him to self-destruction. Roger Chillingworth, originally named Roger Prynne, lived an old and lonely life as a scholar in England who spent most of his life isolated in the shade of a dim lamp with abstruse studies that made him a man endowed with a “remarkable intelligence in his features” (58). Roger Chillingworth first committed his sin when they chose to marry Hester Prynne, a stunning young woman in whom they shared no mutual desires except for a large age gap. Planned in advance, Roger Chillingworth knew he was incapable of keeping the young and beautiful Hester Prynne by his side, but he became disillusioned by hoping that if he could spoil her with all the indulgences a woman ever dreamed of, then she would do it. ...... middle of paper ...... and that its very existence depended on Dimmesdale. As Dimmesdale ascended the scaffold to confess, the doctor was distressed at the thought that his victim was about to escape from him. When Dimmesdale finally confessed, the means by which Chillingworth had stayed alive, thanks to Dimmesdale's secret, disappeared. And like Dimmesdale himself, Chillinworth also disappeared soon after. From the noble intellectual, Roger Chillingworth became the worst sinner and a pawn of the devil when he let obsession, revenge, jealousy and hatred take over his morals and intelligence. Chillingworth's symbolism of evil and sin was strong, powerful, and successful because it represented the self-destructive power of vengeance that people allow into their lives, as well as the innate evil that results from jealousy and hatred, which can transform the purest man into the purest man. the worst of sinners.