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Chillingworth And Dimmesdale's Sins
Sins in society today are not viewed as harshly or compared as they were during the time The Scarlet Letter was written. However, Roger Chillingworth’s sins are worse than Reverend Dimmesdale’s sins because of his motives for sinning, how it affects himself and how it affects others. First of all, the major difference between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale’s sins is their motives for doing so. When Dimmesdale has the affair with Hester, although there was no clear motive for doing so, it might have been because of love. With Chillingworth, he was only torturing Dimmesdale as revenge. Dimmesdale never planned on committing a sin like how Chillingworth deliberately planned on sinning because he had been conjuring in his mind a plan on how to
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