Compare And Contrast Dimmesdale And Chillingworth

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth are two men that have three main differences in character. The first trait is Chillingworth and Dimmesdale’s difference in their internal struggle. Chillingworth is a man who is on fire with his want of revenge. At the beginning of the novel he makes a vow to find the man Hester had an affair with. “He will be known!” is the statement that defines Chillingworth’s life (57). Dimmesdale is a man who is being crushed by guilt over his affair with Hester. “This very burden it was, that gave him sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind; so that his heat vibrated in unison with them” (128). The second is intelligence. Chillingworth was very