I am going to write on the developments chillingworth makes as a character throughout the novel. Starting with the visit he makes Hester in the jail. how he tells her that he has also sinned by forcing into her marriage and making her unhappy. then how he says he has to know the name of the man that sinned with her. I'm going to touch on how chillingworth takes all of his anger out on Dimmesdale. I will then look at how he acts as dimmesdales doctor when really he is not helping him in any way. I want to show how he turns into evil and becomes the real sinner. the scene where chillingworth finds the A on Dimmesdales chest is one i want to look deep into. Probably my favorite quote of the entire book is on page 225... "...whether hatred and love be not from the same thing at the bottom" throughout this entire book this message is played. whether its between Hester and Chillingworth or Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. i really want to play this thought throughout my essay. every relationship, is both hate and love. Lastly I will look at Chillingworths last actions. When he finally starts to realize how he has sinned and how he has wronged people. he attempts to '"cover" those actions with giving pearl all of his fortune.
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Chillingsworth. Spell it right Devin. I lvoe you. =)
ReplyDeletehaha jk. You spelled it right. I don't love you
ReplyDeleteChillingworth does give Dimmesdale stuff that works....it keeps Dimmesdale alive so he can live his shameful, guiltful life longer and longer.
ReplyDeleteDevin,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you've chosen to focus on Chillingworth--this seems like a suitably narrow topic, and tracking his progress through the novel could present an appropriate approach. But to what end are you using him? If you tracked his 'character arc' (where he starts, where he winds up) with the idea that he's an "enactment" of the observation that love and hate are essentially the same thing, then I think you should remind your reader at the outset that he took Hester as his young bride specifically because he was in search of "love" (check out how he describes his own feelings at the time there on page 68--beginning with "my folly...". Then, you could show how the course of his relationship with Dimmesdale provides a negative fulfillment of the very things he was seeking with Hester in the first place.