... called Roger Chillingworth to hide his identity, he sinks to a new low as he tortures Dimmesdale by keeping him alive to suffer his guilt and shame.46 Chillingworth becomes an almost supernatural being, part devil, part medieval alchemist, and part evil scientist.47 Hester's daughter, Pearl, is described as a "demon child"48 who constantly taunts her mother. She is also another ... Renaissance produced eerie poetry and prose. In Gwendolyn Bennett's "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas," Bennett speaks of cemeteries as "places for departed souls [and] roving spirits."92 In The ...

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