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Roger Chillingworth's life in England with Hester was happy. He studied alchemy, and was scholarly and well learned. Although Hester and Chillingworth did not share love, they were happy together. "…he used to emerge at eventide from the seclusion of his study and sit down in the firelight of their home, and in the light of her nuptial smile." (N. Hawthorne 172) Chillingworth needed Hester's genuine warm smile to bring him happiness after so many hours of studying. Roger Chillingworth was a calm, kind man while living in England.

Similar to his calm, studious nature in England, Chillingworth still possesses these positive attributes upon his arrival to Boston. He is startled to see his wife, Hester, displayed in ignominy on a scaffold before a large crowd. Hester saw Chillingworth in the crowd, a small man with a slightly wr

Chillingworth is being consumed by evil gradually; consequently, when he finds the marking on Dimsdale's chest, assuring him his victim, he is completely overcome by devilry knowing at last that he has found his victim. "Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven and won into his kingdom." (135) With his victim now certain, he changed his purpose in life from searching to revenge. He attempts to get Dimsdale to confess to him, but Dimsdale refuses. Chillingworth has now committed the unpardonable sin of going so far into someone's soul that he had control over him. "Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was…a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now,…which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy." (136) Chillingworth's revenge has begun, and he was released his malice only contributing to his evil.

Chillingworth's final state of change occurs at the confession of Dimsdale's sin. "The real agony of sin, as Chillingworth perceived, lies not in its commission…nor in its punishment,…but in the dread of its disco. The revenge which he plans, therefore, depends above all things upon keeping his victim's secret." (J. Hawthorne) After Dimsdale revealed his sin, he died of weakness that had been long accumulating. Chillingworth now found himself lost in life. Without a reason to live, Chillingworth died within a year of Dimsdale's death. This only proves that his soul revolving ar

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