Prompt:
Trace the development of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone AND explain how he is perceived by other characters in the story.
Has revenge ever became so much of your main focus, that your entire personality has been changed by it? Well, it has for Roger Chillingworth in the book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He seeks the revenge of the father of his wife's child, and will stop at nothing to get it. He has changed from a humble physician into a revenge seeking, demonic like creature. Meanwhile throughout the text, Hester is the one who notices the most change in Chillingworth; because she knew how he was before he had come to Boston and before she had sinned. When Chillingworth goes to the jail and talks with Hester she sees a change in his facial expressions and notices the vengeful …show more content…
But the longer he stayed in town and the closer him and the minister got they began to notice a change in his demeanor, they noticed him becoming darker and having evil looks always plastered upon his face. They thought that he was a servant of Satan’s, sent after minister Dimmesdale because they sensed that he was demonic. Even Dimmesdale started to become scared of Chillingworth and have doubts about him because of how persistent he was about wanting to know Dimmesdale’s private secrets.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne lets the readers see Chillingworth go through his change from humble to vengeful. Chillingworth’s only focus is to find the father and make him pay. After he suspects that the father is Dimmesdale, he completely flips his humanity switch and no longer cares about anyone other than Dimmesdale and the pain he plans to inflict upon him. He can no longer see the light, only darkness and that is also all anyone else can see from him
Trace the development of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone AND explain how he is perceived by other characters in the story.
Has revenge ever became so much of your main focus, that your entire personality has been changed by it? Well, it has for Roger Chillingworth in the book The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He seeks the revenge of the father of his wife's child, and will stop at nothing to get it. He has changed from a humble physician into a revenge seeking, demonic like creature. Meanwhile throughout the text, Hester is the one who notices the most change in Chillingworth; because she knew how he was before he had come to Boston and before she had sinned. When Chillingworth goes to the jail and talks with Hester she sees a change in his facial expressions and notices the vengeful …show more content…
But the longer he stayed in town and the closer him and the minister got they began to notice a change in his demeanor, they noticed him becoming darker and having evil looks always plastered upon his face. They thought that he was a servant of Satan’s, sent after minister Dimmesdale because they sensed that he was demonic. Even Dimmesdale started to become scared of Chillingworth and have doubts about him because of how persistent he was about wanting to know Dimmesdale’s private secrets.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne lets the readers see Chillingworth go through his change from humble to vengeful. Chillingworth’s only focus is to find the father and make him pay. After he suspects that the father is Dimmesdale, he completely flips his humanity switch and no longer cares about anyone other than Dimmesdale and the pain he plans to inflict upon him. He can no longer see the light, only darkness and that is also all anyone else can see from him