"Necessity seized the old man within its gripe, and never set him free again, until he had done all its bidding. He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart." This quote really digs deeply, literally hahah (i thought that was funny...guess not), into the heart of human nature. Once someone has taken something or somneone that was supposed to belong to us away we feel the NEED to somehow get revenge and make that person suffer. It didnt matter that Chillingsworth and Hester didnt have a loving marraige or that they hadnt been together in years, he was going to achieve vengence. .......sry not done fiinsh later