Sin is inevitable, you can compare it to the slippery slope, which one phenomena leads to the next. The goats leads with Lust while the snake watches green with Envy, the lion watches silently waiting for the perfect to put forth is Wrath on the goat that lead with Lust and the peacock stands aside showing no emotion seeking only to not lose its Pride. Hawthorne tells a story throughout the book on 4 out of the 7 deadly sins Lust, Envy, Wrath and Pride, Hester possessed Lust, Dimmesdale Possessed Lust and Pride, then Chillingworth being the possessor of 2 Envy and Wrath. Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale, Hester And Chillingworth to inform the reader about morals while telling a story. Similar to The Life Of Pi Hawthorne implements a symbolic approach to a story about
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The snake is represented as the sin of Envy which Chillingworth was modeled after, Chilling worth was the sneakiest, slyest, and foulest of all characters in Nathaniel hawthorne’s the Scarlett letter, “Small in stature, with furrowed visage… remarkable intelligence in his feature”. (Hawthorne 42) “A deformed old [man], with a face that haunted men’s memories longer than they liked… [a] gray beard almost touching the ground… quicken to evil purpose by the sympathy in their eyes”. (Hawthorne 120) Hawthorne modeled the character Roger Chillingworth after a snake; small stature with a face that haunted men in their memories with a quicken to evil purpose by the sympathy in their eyes, along with the physical features of a snake Hawthorne unintentionally depicted Chillingworth as todays modern day definition of a “snake”, a snake is someone who you think is sincere and really nice, but turns out to be a backstabber. Regarding the snake/Chillingworth symbolization of envy, all his sins were commited out of Envy, the Envy of Hester and Dimmesdales Lust, while Hester is with Chillingworth there is no love or
The snake is represented as the sin of Envy which Chillingworth was modeled after, Chilling worth was the sneakiest, slyest, and foulest of all characters in Nathaniel hawthorne’s the Scarlett letter, “Small in stature, with furrowed visage… remarkable intelligence in his feature”. (Hawthorne 42) “A deformed old [man], with a face that haunted men’s memories longer than they liked… [a] gray beard almost touching the ground… quicken to evil purpose by the sympathy in their eyes”. (Hawthorne 120) Hawthorne modeled the character Roger Chillingworth after a snake; small stature with a face that haunted men in their memories with a quicken to evil purpose by the sympathy in their eyes, along with the physical features of a snake Hawthorne unintentionally depicted Chillingworth as todays modern day definition of a “snake”, a snake is someone who you think is sincere and really nice, but turns out to be a backstabber. Regarding the snake/Chillingworth symbolization of envy, all his sins were commited out of Envy, the Envy of Hester and Dimmesdales Lust, while Hester is with Chillingworth there is no love or