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Chillingworth Character Analysis
The villain-like character’s involvement in children’s literature is vital to making an intriguing plot. Hawthorne successfully manifests that stereotypical villain character in Chillingworth. Chillingworth’s villainous persona and deplorable actions contribute to Hawthorne’s theme of cruel intentions due to his relentless bombardment of verbal assaults. Chillingworth directly attacks Dimmesdale on behalf of the belief that Dimmesdale was the adulterer and the biological father of Pearl. However these direct attacks also indirectly affected hester. Hester had to suffer while watching her one true love be psychologically tortured. In Both types of attacks we see how chillingworth undermined The people of the community and mislead hester into
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