In the beginning of the novel, Chillingworth is seen as a highly respectable medicine man. At first, the reader almost wants to sympathize with the old man because of his physical appearance and because of the fact that his wife has a baby with another man. But then, one realizes that Chillingworth's first sin was marrying Hester because he knew she never really loved him. He admits this to her while they aer speaking in the jail cell. "Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed they budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay." Chillingw

At first, his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like. Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed . . . it grew to be a wisely diffused opinion, that the Reverend . . . was haunted either by Satan himself, or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.

Chillingworth was by far the biggest sinner of all. Chillingworth's largest sacrifice is, his own life. After spending so much time dwelling on his revenge, he forgets that he still has a chance to lead a life of his own. So, consequently, after Dimmesdale reveals his secret to the world, Chillingworth dies because he has nothing left to live for.

In the middle of the novel, Chillingworth morphs from respectable to a suspicious and vengful man. At first, the Puritans receive Chillingworth well, thinking that he will help Dimmsdale. "...that Heaven had wrought an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic, from a German university, bodily through the air, and setting him down at

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