Suffering happens because of an inability to comprehend the loss of something we can not happily live without. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth lost his love to another man. Chillingworth searches to validate meaning in life by torturing the man who is more capable of providing happiness to his wife than he. Chillingworth's suffering is evident in his body and soul which was formerly occupied with joy and love but is occupied now with loathing and revenge. The absence of love is what makes Chillingworth experience a pain worse than any other. Chillingworth lets his jealousy take over and make him weak. But he is no devil; he is a misunderstood man who simply lost control of his own emotions.
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But the insesent torturing done to Dimmesdale only increases his internal suffering.“This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analyzed and gloated over” (203). If his only enjoyment is coming from torturing Dimmesdale. It's not really happiness. Chillingworth's whole life revolved around the torturing of Dimmesdale. Chillingworth's absence of love makes him misunderstand it's meaning. Closing …show more content…
But Chillingworth is not the devil everyone thinks he is, he is just misunderstood. He was so weak and he let his emotions control him. “For the hatred that has transformed a wise and just man to a fiend! Wilt thou yet purge it out of thee, and be once more human?” (207). The hated Chillingworth has for Dimmesdale consumed him so much that his entire being changed. Chillingworth came back to Boston as a wise man and within seven years he became a wicked man. He had no control over this transformation but what he did have control over is what he did for Pearl in the end of the novel. “He bequeathed a very considerable amount of property, both here and in England, to little Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne” (312). That final act of kindness showed that in the end he was able to realize his overpowering hatred and jealousy. Before dying, Chillingworth was able to find the strength to do something good, a devil would not do what Chillingworth decided to do for
Chillingworth's …show more content…
But the insesent torturing done to Dimmesdale only increases his internal suffering.“This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analyzed and gloated over” (203). If his only enjoyment is coming from torturing Dimmesdale. It's not really happiness. Chillingworth's whole life revolved around the torturing of Dimmesdale. Chillingworth's absence of love makes him misunderstand it's meaning. Closing …show more content…
But Chillingworth is not the devil everyone thinks he is, he is just misunderstood. He was so weak and he let his emotions control him. “For the hatred that has transformed a wise and just man to a fiend! Wilt thou yet purge it out of thee, and be once more human?” (207). The hated Chillingworth has for Dimmesdale consumed him so much that his entire being changed. Chillingworth came back to Boston as a wise man and within seven years he became a wicked man. He had no control over this transformation but what he did have control over is what he did for Pearl in the end of the novel. “He bequeathed a very considerable amount of property, both here and in England, to little Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne” (312). That final act of kindness showed that in the end he was able to realize his overpowering hatred and jealousy. Before dying, Chillingworth was able to find the strength to do something good, a devil would not do what Chillingworth decided to do for