Scarlet Letter Criminal Justice Quotes

Chillingsworths revenge was cold-hearted it would not only affect the man who his wife fell in love with and slept with and even bore a child with. It affected Hester, Hester truly loved the man she slept with that's why she never told who Pearl's father was and Chillingworth knows this because she would never act this way around him because she never truly loved "Chillingworth". He wanted to get back at her, he may have told her he didn't but his actions speak otherwise. He wanted to befriend the man she slept with and then slowly torture him with the information he had. He wanted to make the man's life completely and totally miserable, even though he knew that it would also torture Hester knowing that the man she loved was being tortured everyday because of her. That to me is the worst possible torture having a person you loved …show more content…
The law is what protects and back then the law would have protected Chillingworth but to him being protected did not matter as much as getting the justice he felt he deserved. He felt he deserved more than just Hester being Killed and the man she slept with being killed he wanted to see them squirm feel terror and death terrifying but it only lasts so long but being blackmailed that lasts as long as the other person is alive and he wants that he wants that he feels he deserves that justice that payback that revenge against those people who wronged him. Death to him is not the proper justice but maybe to another man it is perfect justice. This whole thing basically shows that true justice is just matter of