The Scarlet Letter: The Plot
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The Scarlet Letter is a story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The
story's setting is in the 1850's during the puritan times in Boston,
Massachusetts. Roger Chillingworth was one of the main characters along
with Hester Prynne and Author Dimmesdale.
Roger Chillingworth was a small, thin, a ....
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.... we see that Chillingworth's sins are far
greater than either Hester's or Author's. This is first evident in the fact
that he married Hester knowing she would never love him and yet he made her
marry him anyway. He admits this while talking to her in the jail cell.
"Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false
and unnatural relation with my decay."
His second sin is allowing himself to become obsessed with
vengeance against Dimmesdale].
"But, as he pr ....
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