Does anyone know about Chillingworth in the scarlett letter and do you know some uses of figurative language?
From Shmoop Lit on The Scarlet Letter Assuming the identity of Roger Chillingworth, a physician, Hester’s husband ingratiates himself with Boston’s elite and its leadership. He is quick to discern that Dimmesdale has a secret, and he makes it his life’s goal to hover near the minister, exacerbating Dimmesdale’s secret shame to the point that Dimmesdale suffers real physical distress. Chillingworth’s evil intentions twist his own soul. He changes from a kindly old man into a devil. There is, perhaps, some evidence that he redeems himself when he leaves all of his money to Pearl upon his death. On descriptors of him: Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we … fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy. To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual r
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