The Scarlet Letter 2

"The Scarlet Letter" Roger Chillinworth was once a good puritan who lived a good puritan life and he was married to Hester Prynne. Then he went to travel. When he came, instead of getting a good and warm welcome from his beloved wife he saw her standing on the town scaffold with a letter of shame on her chest. He stood there, completely wrecked and knew that his life as he knew it so far …

…time ago and would not have been so sick. Chillingworth knew that, and he knew that if Dimmesdale confessed, all of his revenge plans would not be affective Dimmesdale would have a clean conscience, or at least a better health. That is why in the last scaffold scene he tried to stop Dimmesdale from confessing his sin. Until the last moment in the story Chillingworth who became the devil, tried to avenge his lost life.