The Importance Of Revenge In The Scarlet Letter

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Roger Chillingwoth doesn 't take revenge on Hester on the grounds that she is already being punished, and tormented by the scarlet letter. Unlike Dimmsdale she admits to her transgression and acknowledges her punishment. Dimsdale keeps his wrongdoing a mystery so he should be secretly punished. This is just one of the reasons why chillingworth is so fixated on punishing him.
In the start of the story, Hester is punished for infidelity. Her ex husband Roger Chillingworth pardons her indiscretion, yet needs vindicate on the man she cheated with. Readers later discover that she did in fact cheated with Dimmesdale. She is furious now because of the fact that Roger is transforming into a fixated and malevolence individual and tormenting Dimmesdale. Roger 's "devil work" is a mess more awful than the wrongdoing of infidelity she had take part.
Why does Hester want to meet Dimmesdale "beneath the open sky."?
In Dimmesdale 's study, similar to the content clarified, many come to express their transgression and atone. On the off chance that Hester went to his office she and he would not be totally open, Dimmesdale would not be totally helpless. Dimmesdale would fall into the part of the "holy Pastor" while Hester would feel uncomfortable and kept
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In the platform scene, Dimmesdale laughed at the irony of the circumstance. As he laughed, Pearl did so in counter. He then promptly understood that Hester and Pearl were both with him in the darkness. Correspondingly, in this scene, he again hears the voice of his love. In the platform scene, he thoroughly considered all of the wrongdoing he fell into and the obscurity he lives in. In the forest as he stops to recognize the voice. Unlike their past experience amidst the night when he remembered them immediately, Dimmesdale now has the uncertainty that she is standing before him. His blame is strong to the point that it is compelling him to scrutinize his own

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