The paper makes a tentative defense for the villain Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter,regarding that the characterization with a devil’s image,cruel and cold-blooded is related to religious and artistic purpo...
Although the main plot of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was formed by Prynne and Dimmesdale who together committed an unforgivable sin,Chillingworth is long regarded as the real incarnation of evil.Different from ot...
Heathcliff and Chillingworth are the two typical satan type heroes among literature works. To some extent, their revenge is similar, but there are also differences. However, there are few comparisons between the two h...
Chillingworth is a complicated character in The scarlet letter. His image is a synthesis, or trinity, of the images of God, man of science and Satan, and the novel demonstrates a degradation from God to man of science...
In most critical works, Chillingworth is the demon and leech. But actually, he is not so fiendish and evil, and he has his own reason to do in his own way. Before the story opens, he is a man capable of love and desir...
Nathaniel Hawthorne not only strongly condemns the belief that men are more evil than good, but also conveys the inclination towards good through the Scarlet Letter. The characters like Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, ...