Part one of term paper
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, and was slightly deformed in appearance with o ...

Part two of term paper
... knowledge he seemed to cut himself of from humanity. He is a victim even before his arrival to the American Colony's, first by being captured by savage Indians. While being held captive he was presumed dead his wife Hester had a child by another man out of wedlock. By the end of the book 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 m ...