Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Roger Chillingworth was an intense and deep character who underwent a major transformation. Chillingworth was the worst sinner in the book, and eventually that sin consumed him and all that was left was his need for revenge. It was thought that he had “made it his principle…to consist in the pursuit of revenge”(175) In the beginning of the book, when Hester and baby Pearl were in jail, Chillingworth produced a very natural medicine to cure them. Chillingworth seemed the all-around-good-guy that everybody wants to befriend. The minister, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth became friends. However, when news of his true identity and the ministers real self got around to the other, Chillingworth though