English 3
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Ms.T
What's shapes the morality of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth?
Morality is the quality of being moral and being able to decipher right from wrong. Hester
Prynne is a very well fortified woman who is amazingly beautiful and not afraid to admit for what she's done. Rev Dimmesdale is a bright young man from England who strived as a theologian and then emigrated to America, for a more brilliant life. Lastly Arthur Chillingworth is Hester's old husband who is a scholar physician that uses his knowledge to seek revenge on Hester’s anonymous lover. How the novel of the "Scarlet Letter" shapes the morality of these characters is incredible. It makes them unique in their own way of life. Hester is not your typical everyday women she doesn't …show more content…
As a older man Roger married Hester for the deep love he had for her knowing she didn't love him the same way. Once returning back to Massachusetts from being held a hostage after he was shipwrecked. Once he found out Hester committed adultery, Chillingworth immediately becomes obsessed with Hester and Dimmesdale to determine the truth. This is where Rogers true morality takes place. Devoted to seek revenge on Hester's lover Chillingworth torments Dimmesdale by giving him no space what so ever while he harassess him on how keeping secrets are bad for the soul thus totally transforming Chillingworth to what send to be the devil. "Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office". Roger tortures Dimmesdale from the start because he knew their was something dark within his soul. It states so in this part of the text "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"
Block G
Ms.T
What's shapes the morality of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth?
Morality is the quality of being moral and being able to decipher right from wrong. Hester
Prynne is a very well fortified woman who is amazingly beautiful and not afraid to admit for what she's done. Rev Dimmesdale is a bright young man from England who strived as a theologian and then emigrated to America, for a more brilliant life. Lastly Arthur Chillingworth is Hester's old husband who is a scholar physician that uses his knowledge to seek revenge on Hester’s anonymous lover. How the novel of the "Scarlet Letter" shapes the morality of these characters is incredible. It makes them unique in their own way of life. Hester is not your typical everyday women she doesn't …show more content…
As a older man Roger married Hester for the deep love he had for her knowing she didn't love him the same way. Once returning back to Massachusetts from being held a hostage after he was shipwrecked. Once he found out Hester committed adultery, Chillingworth immediately becomes obsessed with Hester and Dimmesdale to determine the truth. This is where Rogers true morality takes place. Devoted to seek revenge on Hester's lover Chillingworth torments Dimmesdale by giving him no space what so ever while he harassess him on how keeping secrets are bad for the soul thus totally transforming Chillingworth to what send to be the devil. "Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office". Roger tortures Dimmesdale from the start because he knew their was something dark within his soul. It states so in this part of the text "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"