... have a deeper importance in the story. As his name suggests, Chillingworth is a man deficient in human warmth hence the beginning "chilling- of his name. This character is shown as a very evil person throughout the novel. "In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of a man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil,""(152). Hawthorne uses Chillingworth as a symbol to portray the wickedness ... of his characters, but also can represent the main ideas within his novel. Perhaps Hawthorne is trying to express that the names and characters within his book can serve as sy...

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