For my essay i was think about writing about "revenge" through out the whole book. For example Chillingworth has revenge on Dimesdale through out the whole book. Also for example when Chillingworth goes into Hester's jail cell to talk to her as a doctor so he could give her pills and eventually kill her. But instead he goes in her cell and interrogates her. He asks over and over who the father of her child is, who is shares love with. I was thinking i could maybe even state that revenge is in many other stories or movies. Also revenge is one of the main themes of this book. It shows the relationship between Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. Chillingworth is just out there "helping" him, but really he is just there to destroy him.
Page 107 "I need no medicine," Dimesdale told Chillingworth. "Were it Gods will, I could be well content, that my labors, and my sorrows,, and my sins, and my pains, should shortly end with me, and what is earthly of them be buried in my grave,and the spiritual go with and my eternal state, rather that that you should put your skill to the proof of my behalf." Right the Dimesdale is trying to tell Chillingworth that he is just fine without medicine. That he can take care of himself without any ones help.
Again page 107 '"Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth..."it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak. Youthful men, not having taken a deep root, give up their hold of life so easily! And saintly men, who walk with God on earth, would fain be away, to walk with him on the golden pavements of the New Jerusalem." Right there Chillingworth is just telling Dimesdale that he Will be way much of a better person, and leader if he gets of medicine to take his strange pain away.
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Alison,
ReplyDeleteHmmm... reading through this, I'm not sure I have a sense of what direction you want to take. On the one hand, you could make the argument (easy enough to do given Chillingworth's dramatic decline) that revenge as harmful to the person seeking it as the one on whom it is taken. But then, looking at those quotations you've included, I'm thinking that you might have something else in mind--the notion that expiation can come not through 'earthly' medicine, but only from the :one Physician of the Soul" (119). As it is, I guess I'll just have to wait for your first draft to see where you wind up taking this.