Sin is an act that would be considered immoral and offensive in the eyes of God and a society. When you sin, you are not only hurting God, but also yourself. Being a sinner will destroy your conscience and character. People Who sin don’t care how it affects them or anyone else, because they have become desensitized to the fact that sinning is a serious matter. In The Scarlet Letter Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth have both fallen into sin and now they must deal with the consequences. When it came to the reading of The Scarlet Letter plenty of people would realize that Reverend Dimmesdale was affected the most with his sin, and keeping that sin a secret throughout the novel was obviously a very difficult task. As the novel went
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Chillingworth caused his own death, because he devoted his whole life to making Dimmesdale’s horrible, and when Dimmesdale finally died Roger Chillingworth had nothing else to live for due to the fact that his own life revolved around Dimmesdale’s. After everything that had taken place Roger Chillingworth slowly withered away and died also. A quote that best describe Chillingworth’s obsession would’ve been “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” (Hawthorne 255). Chillingworth also made it seem like it was his duty to torment and make Dimmesdale pay for his sins, because he says “With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse and despair of pardon, as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grace. But it was the constant shadow of my presence, the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged, and who had grown to exist only by this …show more content…
For example Chillingworth was obsessed with punishing Dimmesdale for his sins, and Dimmesdale was obsessed with his faith and teaching others about the power of God. Chillingworth was a very vengeful and evil character throughout the course The Scarlet Letter, while Dimmesdale was a very compassionate and sensitive character who was trying to ease his pain from the amount of remorse he was feeling, because of the amount of remorse he was feeling. A quote that describes Chillingworth’s need to always be around Dimmesdale would be “Hadst thou sought the whole earth over," said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no one place so secret,—no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,—save on this very scaffold!” (Hawthorne Ch 23). There is also a quote that represents Dimmesdale’s love for teaching the faith which is “At the great judgment day,” whispered the minister—and, strangely enough, the sense that he was a professional teacher of truth impelled him to answer the child so. “Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!” (Hawthorne Ch
Chillingworth caused his own death, because he devoted his whole life to making Dimmesdale’s horrible, and when Dimmesdale finally died Roger Chillingworth had nothing else to live for due to the fact that his own life revolved around Dimmesdale’s. After everything that had taken place Roger Chillingworth slowly withered away and died also. A quote that best describe Chillingworth’s obsession would’ve been “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” (Hawthorne 255). Chillingworth also made it seem like it was his duty to torment and make Dimmesdale pay for his sins, because he says “With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse and despair of pardon, as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grace. But it was the constant shadow of my presence, the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged, and who had grown to exist only by this …show more content…
For example Chillingworth was obsessed with punishing Dimmesdale for his sins, and Dimmesdale was obsessed with his faith and teaching others about the power of God. Chillingworth was a very vengeful and evil character throughout the course The Scarlet Letter, while Dimmesdale was a very compassionate and sensitive character who was trying to ease his pain from the amount of remorse he was feeling, because of the amount of remorse he was feeling. A quote that describes Chillingworth’s need to always be around Dimmesdale would be “Hadst thou sought the whole earth over," said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no one place so secret,—no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,—save on this very scaffold!” (Hawthorne Ch 23). There is also a quote that represents Dimmesdale’s love for teaching the faith which is “At the great judgment day,” whispered the minister—and, strangely enough, the sense that he was a professional teacher of truth impelled him to answer the child so. “Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!” (Hawthorne Ch