Chillingworth, first characterized by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a very calm and intellectual man with good intentions whose desire for vengeance corrupts his once pure intent in The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne's diction in the metaphor “of a judge desirous only of truth” characterizes Chillingworth as an upright unbiased man held by analytical views who sought a solution abstained from human affections . However the judges craving for reprisal corrupted the systematic investigation and “seized the old man within its gripe” forcing a new, darker being over Chillingworth's consciousness, fueled by the wrongs inflicted upon him. Chillingworth deceived by his own personality, has never emotionally had any feelings with anyone. So personal to Chillingworth,
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Chillingworth first form of vengeance, a miner exposing his sickly passion to seek sin hidden in the dim cavern of Dimmesdale's heart.The miner digging desperately for a reason to convict the clergymen finds nothing but fool's gold composed of “pure sentiments” and “natural piety”, maintains his constant chipping away at Dimmesdale sanity. The miners persistence transforms him into a thief who conceals his true motives under the label of a sexton. Hawthorne depicts Chillingworth's metamorphosis“like a Sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the deads man soul.” A sexton is supposed to be taking care of the church and graveyard not robbing it treasures. Hawthorne makes this analogy to showing how the physician uses his occupation to get close to dimmesdale, protruding Chillingworth's fraudulence.Further developing the possession of chillingworth's psyche, Hawthorne symbolically represents satan making an allusion to the door of hell in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress”.”Like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway”. Earlier in the passage Chillingworth eyes “burning blue and ominous”, were compared to the reflection of a furnace. Hawthorne's diction evolved from ordinary fire in a furnace to ghastly fire from hell, illustrating how the vile possession of vengeance is growing stronger in Chillingworth conducting
Chillingworth first form of vengeance, a miner exposing his sickly passion to seek sin hidden in the dim cavern of Dimmesdale's heart.The miner digging desperately for a reason to convict the clergymen finds nothing but fool's gold composed of “pure sentiments” and “natural piety”, maintains his constant chipping away at Dimmesdale sanity. The miners persistence transforms him into a thief who conceals his true motives under the label of a sexton. Hawthorne depicts Chillingworth's metamorphosis“like a Sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the deads man soul.” A sexton is supposed to be taking care of the church and graveyard not robbing it treasures. Hawthorne makes this analogy to showing how the physician uses his occupation to get close to dimmesdale, protruding Chillingworth's fraudulence.Further developing the possession of chillingworth's psyche, Hawthorne symbolically represents satan making an allusion to the door of hell in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress”.”Like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway”. Earlier in the passage Chillingworth eyes “burning blue and ominous”, were compared to the reflection of a furnace. Hawthorne's diction evolved from ordinary fire in a furnace to ghastly fire from hell, illustrating how the vile possession of vengeance is growing stronger in Chillingworth conducting