Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter demonstrates that the antagonist, Roger Chillingworth, turned to various forms of revenge to exploit the sins of Dimmesdale, which suggests that people have a natural tendency to seek vengeance on others that have deceived them beyond forgiveness. Chillingworth’s world quickly became fixated on exposing the secret of Hester Prynne—a woman he used to love—and her prohibited lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister who Hester secretly calls the father of her notorious Pearl. Chillingworth's vengeance derived on the first night he saw Hester on the scaffold, with her scarlet letter “A”. While the whole Puritanical community saw the letter as a symbol for adultery, Chillingworth saw it as a personal offense
