Friday, October 30, 2009
Revenge and Love
I wanna write about the relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. Chillingworth is seeking revenge for what Dimmesdale did to his wife. The two men start to talk, much like how any relationship starts. They get to know each other. Before you know it, they're living together. Almost like a happy couple progression through thier relationship of love. "...that Heaven wrought an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic [Chillingworth], from a German university, bodily through the air, and setting him down at the door of Mr. Dimmesdale's study!" Chillingworth eventually cannot live without knowing Dimmesdale is being tormented on the inside by shame and guilt. Chillingworth even creates elixers, and puts enough time and care into these elixers like they were the "Elixer of Life." Yea...I'm going to put some quotes that represent how the relationship between these two men show revenge and love at the same time.
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Oh... thats what I was planning to write about. Well if I find any passages that help me out at all I will tell you about them. Other than that I don't really have any recommendations.
ReplyDeleteI'll do the same for you
ReplyDeleteIvan,
ReplyDeleteYou make a really good observation here: that Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, in becoming almost a "happy couple" managed each to achieve what they wanted with Hester. An odd couple, indeed. You might want to begin with that passage on page 225 about love and hatred being essentially the same thing (others are writing about this as well) and then make the case that, by blowing a "healthy" relationship with Hester (Chillingworth is too old and creepy, Dimmesdale is too much of a coward) both wind up in a sort of 'negation' of the happy marriage they'd hoped for.