I felt no love, nor feigned any. Nonetheless, he was initially content to marry her because he appreciated her youth and beauty. Chillingworth works as physician once he settles in the New England community. For, as our good Governor Winthrop, was made an angel this past night. When Hester and Dimmesdale meet in the forest, she impulsively takes off the letter and throws it away. When Pearl sees her mother without the letter, she reacts by screaming and crying until Hester puts the letter back on.
After many years, Hester returns alone and lives quietly in the same cottage she had previously occupied. She still wears the scarlet letter, and becomes a kind of wise woman who other townspeople can come to for advice. The narrator also describes a lot about his place of work, his job, his society, and himself, all of which contrast with the story he writes after he loses his job.
She will not speak! She does not reveal that Chillingworth is really her husband because she has promised him that she will not. Over the course of his illness, Reverend Dimmesdale grows emaciated, his voice sounds melancholy, and he often places his hand over his heart.
Pearl was born out of sin, and due to the sinfulness of Hester she is wild. Hester realizes that even though she loved Pearl she accepted the fact that she was wild due to the circumstances of how she got here. Pearl asks Dimmesdale if he will stand upon the scaffold during the day with her mother and herself. To do so would be for Dimmesdale to confess.
It is Pearl throughout the novel that goads Dimmesdale into revealing his sin, and it is to her at the end that he turns when he finally does , looking for forgiveness. Chillingworth hates Dimmesdale. Yet his thirst for revenge means that he can never be free of Dimmesdale. So bound up is he in Dimmesdale that he eventually moves in with him, in the guise of caring for him as the kindly physician.
When we seek revenge , we become the reflection of that which we hate. Ossa, M. The failing health that greatly affects Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is described to have begun around the same time that Hester's ignonimity began.
This, of course, is because the guilt and shame that ate away at his ego were causing his entire esteem to disappear. As Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are talking at a window of the home they share, Pearl sees the two men and says to her mother, Hester, Come away, mother!
Thus, when Pearl calls Chillingworth by this appellation, she seems to be identifying his sinfulness and wickedness. It is while Dimmesdale is sleeping one night that Chillingworth's supsicions are confirmed; he looks at the sleeping Dimmesdale , and sees something on his chest that verifies he is indeed the man Hester had been with. There, on Dimmesdale's chest , is an engraved letter A, cut into his skin and scarred over.
He gives one last sermon, his best yet, after which he climbs the scaffold again. There, he finally confesses his sin. He dies in Hester's arms, his soul finally clean. When Hester later dies , she is buried next to Dimmesdale. Roger Chillingworth. As his name suggests, Roger Chillingworth is a man deficient in human warmth.
Roger Chillingworth 's most horrible sin is this: In seeking revenge , he sets out to deliberately and methodically destroy another human being, Arthur Dimmesdale.
Hester's husband's plan for revenge has already formed in his mind, and he takes up his new false name, Chillingworth. Hawthorne states that this is because Chillingworth was a parasite, feeding off of Dimmesdale himself. And any parasite that is separated from its host has no way of living, so shrivels and dies. Dimmesdale, although he discusses the secrets of his soul with his physician, never reveals the ultimate secret that Chillingworth is obsessed with hearing.
Their relationship is further explored in the next few chapters. Elixir of Life a subject of myth, a substance that was supposed to extend life indefinitely. Gobelin looms a tapestry factory in Paris that made the finest tapestries. David and Bathsheba the biblical story of King David's adultery with Bathsheba. Nathan the Prophet the biblical prophet who condemned David's adultery. Sir Thomas Overbury and Dr. Forman the subjects of an adultery scandal in in England.
Forman was charged with trying to poison his adulterous wife and her lover. Overbury was a friend of the lover and was perhaps poisoned. Previous Chapter 8. Next Chapter Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
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