In Chapter Four, Hester Prynne meets with the physician Roger Chillingworth in jail. Prynne discovers that he is her former husband and that he had returned to ask her to go back to him and that if she decides to accept his offer he will drop the charges and assume responsibility for her and the child even though he is not the father of the child. The offer that Chillingworth made for Hester is denied because Hester had fallen in love with someone else and she clearly states that when they married, she had no affection for him. “Thou knowest, thou knowest that I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any” (Hawthorne 72). This is the pivotal moment where Chillingworth instantly decides to dedicate his life on revenge. Hester’s former husband feels remorse against the man who committed adultery with Hester and is determined to seek vengeance because he had lost Hester forever. The physician says to Hester “Yet fear not for
In Chapter Four, Hester Prynne meets with the physician Roger Chillingworth in jail. Prynne discovers that he is her former husband and that he had returned to ask her to go back to him and that if she decides to accept his offer he will drop the charges and assume responsibility for her and the child even though he is not the father of the child. The offer that Chillingworth made for Hester is denied because Hester had fallen in love with someone else and she clearly states that when they married, she had no affection for him. “Thou knowest, thou knowest that I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any” (Hawthorne 72). This is the pivotal moment where Chillingworth instantly decides to dedicate his life on revenge. Hester’s former husband feels remorse against the man who committed adultery with Hester and is determined to seek vengeance because he had lost Hester forever. The physician says to Hester “Yet fear not for