... fact her old husband. The old man, who calls himself Roger Chillingworth, tells her he would not poison her. "Are my purposes wont to be so shallow? Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could I do better for my object than to let thee live--than to give thee medicines against all harm and peril of life--so that this burning ... other ghost." Dimmesdale then tells Hester he has only felt misery and despair during the past years, and Hester makes known to him that Chillingworth is his enemy with a spiteful scheme of revenge. She makes him realize that Chillingworth has been causi...

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... them adjust to the new land, and despite the kindness of the natives, the English still considered them savages. By the time Puritans arrived with John Winthrop in 1630, things between the natives and the English were. The Puritans believed it was their job to "fix" them and transform ... thousand person tribe. The Puritans saw this as a sign from God. " ' If God were not pleased with our inheriting these parts,' Puritan John Winthrop wondered, 'why did he drive out the natives before us'" (Gillon, 13). The emotions kept rising between the Pequots and the Puritans, ... on May ...

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