It wouldn't let me go back and edit it so here it is again.....
"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 someone that was supposed to belong to us we feel the NEED to somehow get revenge and make that person suffer. It doesn’t matter the circumstances, it is all about pride and Chillingsworth was willing to do anything to achieve vengeance. What I found particularly interesting about this quote is the fact that Dimmesdale is the one that slept with Hester while she was married and he is the father of her illegitimate daughter yet in this quote Dimmesdale is portrayed as the victim. While Chillingsworth is definitely partly at fault, you would expect him to be the one receiving sympathy from readers. However, Chillingsworth has succumbed so deeply to anger and hatred, as many of us do, that he has become the monster.
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