Chillingworth: A Sinful Man From the beginning of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth is a man that is capable of love, and slowly emerges into a man that is capable of evil. Chillingworth’s first initial sin is marrying Hester who was a generation younger than him. His second sin is betraying Minister Dimmesdale. In this case of Roger Chillingworth, two sins control his destiny. Chillingworth’s first sin causes Hester …showed first 75 words of 790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 790 total…revenge. He commits two sins; the result of his first sin leads to the second; marrying a spouse with a great age difference causes his wife to suffer; her suffering results in adultery; her adultery causes Chillingworth to suffer and during his suffering he appears to be “Satan himself, or Satan’s emissary”; he then violates the sanctity of a human heart. Which proves to believe suffering results from sin, and sin results from suffering.