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  • Essay / The Disappearance of Roger Chillingworth - 1119

    Hawthorne used symbolism to represent the impact of various human behaviors on life. He took these behaviors to the extreme to emphasize their influence in the situation of adultery. Roger Chillingworth played the villain in this story. “Although he was originally the only character without problems or sin, he became the one who committed the worst sins of all.”₂ He transformed himself into the embodiment of vengeance, Hawthorne still amplified this character by describing him as an expert in all fields. alchemical things. For the reader, this imparts a subconscious relationship with the occult. Chillingworth makes a believable, if not exaggerated, character in this novel. The man presented as Roger Chillingworth was an intelligent, introspective, but somewhat deformed older man. knowing that he had managed to convince Hester to marry him, even though he was several years her senior. She had never felt love for Chillingworth and had always described him as "without warm emotions". When this couple moved to America, he sent her to settle in their new home while he stayed to finish their business in England. During Chillingworth's voyage to America, he had "serious incidents at sea". He was later captured by the United Kingdom. Indians and spent the next two years trying to gain his freedom so he could be reunited with his wife. He sees Hester as the only bright spot in an otherwise joyless life. Roger Chillingworth finally achieved his goal of traveling to the country. town where his wife resided. There he is, greeted by his wife standing on a scaffold with the scarlet letter A on her chest and holding a child. She instantly recognized him as “a figure who irresistibly took possession of her thoughts.” .. middle of paper ...... evil. “His desire to hurt others contrasts with the sin of Hester and Dimmesdale, which had love, not hatred, as its intent. Any harm that could have come from the young lovers. “The act was unforeseen and unintentional, while Chillingworth reaps deliberate harm.” Roger Chillingworth is a believable character because his portrayal is an exaggeration of the emotions most people have felt. Bibliography1 eBooks@Adelaide (2009) Retrieved March 27, 2010 from http://ebooks.adelaide. edu.au/h/hawthorne/nathaniel/h39s/index.html2. escoala.ro () The scarlet letter - Roger Chillingworth Retrieved March 27, 2010 from http://www.e-scoala.ro/referate/engleza_nathaniel_hawthorne_scarlet. .html3. Spark Notes (2010). The Scarlet Letter Retrieved March 27, 2010 from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/canalysis.html.