... scarlet letter and seems to torture her mother by playing with it. Pearl symbolized God's way of punishing Hester for adultery. On page 61 in The Scarlet Letter, when Pearl is being explained as an innocent child, Hawthorne writes "a lovely and immortal flower." Pearl, to Hester, was ... his revenge, Hawthorne writes, "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart." Hester and Arthur are sinners but not ... as bad as Chilli...

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... sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute." ― Thornton Wilder. This quote clearly reminds a reader of a main character in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This quote talks about one sinner and it emphasis Roger Chillingworth. Even though Chillingworth is the most reasonable sinner, he has ... air-drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem, instead of human passions, and wrongs inflicted on itself." Here the cold intellect of the publicly emerging nineteenth century scientist is us...

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... Chillingworth are all individually affected by sin and the guilt accompanied with it. Each character with their own unique sin, struggle through the experience in their own unique way. Each sin is oddly intertwined with each other which makes for interesting effects on the individuals and the ways they deal ... makes this point evident when he says, "His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and t...

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... . For example the sins get worse as the story 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 magnitudes of evil; some choose to fight it, like Hester, and some choose to give in, like Chillingworth. In the novel, Hester received a scarlet ... to what extent Chillingworth will go through to find personal information about his patient, Dimmesdale. Hawthorne ...

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... Prynne) comes to this town to find a place to live for her and her husband, but falls victim to the desires of the human nature. Hester falls in love with Reverend Dimmesdale, and conceives Pearl. The town people unjustly judge her for her "crime"; "he with out sin cast the first stone". She is ... has met, and this is what attracts him. Hester married an older man (Roger) and longs for love and affection. They meet and fall deeply in love, but are restrained because of Hester's marriage. They soon receive news of Roger Chillingworth falling victim to the Native Americans, and act on thei...

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... affected by their own agony. Nathaniel Hawthorne suggests that suffering is necessary to be remorseful. Suffering ruins Roger Chillingworth, while it aids Hester Prynne in becoming rueful. When Arthur Dimmesdale finally confesses, his suffering assists him to be contrite as well. If Hester does not suffer, she will ... world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!' 'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a ... than Hest...

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... from the anger he has toward his wife for having an affair with Dimmesdale, the Reverend of the town. His villainy also enhances meaning in the novel in several ways. First, Chillingworth's main villainy is ignited by his desire for revenge. He longs for revenge because of the affair between his ... burrow into the clergyman's intimacy and plot against his soul" (p124). The Puritan law also contributes to Chillingworth's villainy. He cannot forgive Dimmesdale because in the 1600's the Puritans were extremely strict and unforgiving. Puritans usually had a passion for what they did, and his...

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