Roger Prynne In The Scarlett Letter

Roger Prynne, also known as Roger Chillingworth, is an intellectual who lives in England. He focuses most of his time studying physics. He is given the description of an aged man with unproportioned shoulders. He is married to a beautiful young woman, Hester Prynne, who is a generation younger than himself. He sends her across the seas to join the Puritan community in Boston, Massachusetts. He stays in England to finish some of his studies. Hester expects to see him again within one year. There are some troubles at sea and Roger gets delayed. After this delay of one year he gets captured and held hostage by an Indian tribe. In captivity, he learns various skills and knowledge by observing the natives. He is held in captivity for one year. With two years of delays, …show more content…
To his advantage, he can now physically examine Dimmesdale’s body without him knowing. He pulls aside his shirt and right away looks upon his chest, the same area he is feeling pain. The moment Roger was waiting for had come. His suspicions of the secret Dimmesdale were hiding was put to an end. On Dimmesdale’s chest was the Scarlett Letter. Roger walked away to safer grounds and a large smirk grew upon his face. His legs were stomping, his arms were waving accompanied by the signature evil scientist laugh. His demeanor is one similar to witchcraft. His reaction to the discovery looked like the reaction of Satan as if “a precious human soul was lost to heaven and won in his kingdom”. The only distinction of the two’s ecstasy was that Roger’s had a little bit of wonder in it. After this event life just resumed as normal. Roger went to the woods often in search of herbs and gave them to Dimmesdale and there were few conversations. Also one night he saw only Dimmesdale on the scaffold and he got him down. He never knew Hester or Pearl was there too and he assumed Dimmesdale had sleepwalked onto the