... townspeople while is confronted on the issue of who her alleged adulterer may be. " If thou feelest it to be for thy souls peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to Salvation, I charge the to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow sufferer!" (pg.63) Dimmesdale, while asking these questions to Hester, allows them to ... is placed in the prison for her crime, she comes in contact with the alleged stranger and realizes that it is her husband. Roger Chillingworth changed his name to verify that he is in no relation with Hester. He presumed him...

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... responsibility stemmed from the origin of the marriage. Hester Prynne was much younger than Chillingworth when they were married, and he admits his mistake when he says, "Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay (79)." Their entire relationship dissolves in large part because of the weak foundation on which it ... be a devil. After his inspiring final sermon, Dimmesdale struggles his way onto the scaffold and acknowledges his transgressions to the townspeople. Once Dimmesdale's confession leaves his lips, Chillingworth ...

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... wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay."(Ch.4 p.68-69). Hester is the victim of her husband, he sent her to New England by herself, and meanwhile Chillingworth is in Europe. He even admitted that it ... is on the town scaffold telling him to pretend he doesn't know her. Roger Chillingworth befriends the good Reverend and becomes his doctor. He notices that something more than physical body problems is wrong with him. He looks for ... a scholar of some renown at Oxford University. A Puritan minister, he is the father of Peal, with Hes...

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... goes on. These three sinners, in the eyes of the puritan community are the beautiful Hester Prynne, the esteemed Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, and the cold-hearted doctor, Roger Chillingworth. Like Hawthorne, I believe that evil is the nature of man but that there are different ... his patient, Dimmesdale. Hawthorne describes it as "The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that, hitherto, had always covered it even from the professional eye" (49). Chillingworth really commits two major ... thy budding youth into a...

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• Grade Level: High School