Character Analysis Of Roger Chillingworth In The Scarlet Letter

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne introduces a character that symbolizes different forms of tone. Roger Chillingworth progresses from respectful and scholarly to contentious and skeptical. Being the husband of the recent “heathen” causes his personality as well values and morals to shift. In the story, the audience is made aware that Mr.Chillingworth is a physician, who is also a captive of the Indians. However, no matter who you may have the dark side can always get you. Once the dark side obtains Mr. Roger Chillingworth the consequences of his action were to live life as a bitter man, and once he dies the sin of his wife shall receive his valuable land. A valuable scripture that could save Roger Chillingworth from all that he went …show more content…
To see, his beloved wife standing on the scaffold of shame changed Roger Chillingworth into a monster wanting revenge.

Hester Prynne is the beloved wife of Roger Chillingworth, but she is also half of the scandal taking place in Massachusetts Bay Colony. “ At his arrival in the market-place, and sometime before she saw him, the stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne.” When meeting the eyes of Hester Prynne, the very being of her husband began to change. The ultimate betrayal and mostly what ends marriages: Adultery. However, Hester Prynne and her mister did not expect for their acute affair to skyrocket. “ When the young woman - the mother of this child- stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a …show more content…
The respectful and scholarly doctor, Hester Prynne’s husband request if he could stay with Dimmesdale just to help him recover from his sickness. After, he moves in he comes to realize that the reverend is not sick but does not know what is really wrong with him. Well, Chillingworth has another duty and that is to find out who the father is to his wife’s child. Dimmesdale is resting one day and Chillingworth moves his shirt to the side to reveal his chest and finds the letter “A” just as it is on Hester. Finally, the puzzle has been complete the father of the sin is the good old reverend, how contradicting? Reverends are considered to some of the holiest people, they are more so connected to God than the congregation. Anyone close to the good father would know that fornication and adultery were plain and simple: sins. The gathering of new knowledge begins to make the wheels in Roger Chillingworth’s head turn: he decides that he will get revenge and this man will suffer and be exposed just as Hester was if not more. This is the entrance of the dark-side begin to swallow this poor suffering