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Chillingworth In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
This story has many characters and one of the most complex is Chillingworth.
The questions that arise throughout the story cause the reader to revisit and question the ambiguity of his morality. Hester’s long lost husband, Chillingworth, had been living “captive” with Natives and learned their medicinal ways. When he arrives in Boston he realizes his wife is the one being publically scorned for her role in the adultery scandal. He does not want anyone to know he is her long lost husband and so he changes his name and forces Hester to swear she won’t tell anyone who he really is. During this stage of the story the reader is lead to almost feel sorry for Chillingworth as he seems a complete victim. As the story develops he is consumed with anger
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