The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn, takes place in 1642 Boston, Massachusetts and is about a woman named Hester Prynne, who is married to Roger Chillingworth but committed adultery with the town’s Reverend, Author Dimmesdale and had a baby, named Pearl. People, in this time period, believed that adultery was one of the worst sins to commit and forced Hester to wear a scarlet letter A, on her chest, to remind her of her sin. Another American gothic novel, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, is about a man named Ishmel who joined a crew on a whaler ship where the Captain, called Captain Ahab, was obsessive about killing a white whale referred to as Moby-Dick. Searching for this whale caused the ship to go far off course and ended up with the whole crew dying except for Ishmel. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab are both evil characters with many similarities.
One of these similarities is vengeance. Both Chillingworth and Captain Ahab want revenge on someone or something. For Chillingworth, he wants revenge on …show more content…
Both men have similar traits or motives that the devil has. In the movie, Chillingworth offered to share a house with Dimmesdale and Dimmesdale’s health starts to slowly worsen. This is because Chillingworth is giving him potions that make his health poor, but at the same time they keep him alive. Like the Devil, Chillingworth won Dimesdale over with fake kindness and concern making Dimmesdale believe he was good, but in reality, he was only trying to keep him alive until he was of no use for Chillingworth anymore. Captain Ahab can also be compared to the devil. Like the Devil, he gave the crew false hope that they would capture and kill Moby-Dick. He believed that he ‘controlled the heavens’ and the crew bowed down to him because they believed the Saint Elmo’s Fire turned him into a profit and he could be trusted because of that. In reality, it caused only bad things to happen to the
One of these similarities is vengeance. Both Chillingworth and Captain Ahab want revenge on someone or something. For Chillingworth, he wants revenge on …show more content…
Both men have similar traits or motives that the devil has. In the movie, Chillingworth offered to share a house with Dimmesdale and Dimmesdale’s health starts to slowly worsen. This is because Chillingworth is giving him potions that make his health poor, but at the same time they keep him alive. Like the Devil, Chillingworth won Dimesdale over with fake kindness and concern making Dimmesdale believe he was good, but in reality, he was only trying to keep him alive until he was of no use for Chillingworth anymore. Captain Ahab can also be compared to the devil. Like the Devil, he gave the crew false hope that they would capture and kill Moby-Dick. He believed that he ‘controlled the heavens’ and the crew bowed down to him because they believed the Saint Elmo’s Fire turned him into a profit and he could be trusted because of that. In reality, it caused only bad things to happen to the