So Hester decides to talk to the evil Mr.Chillingworth regarding her lover Dimmesdale’s health. The scene is set in a garden where old Chillingworth is collecting herbs he needs to treat people. Hester manages to get Little Pearl away so that she can talk in private. A new and more evil side to Chillingworth comes to light. I am so glad Hester finally takes a stand. What comes out of this chapter is chillingworth’s desire and intensity to take revenge from Dimmesdale. Moreover I feel Chillingworth’s real feelings about the whole situation come out, whatever he’s been feeling for the past 7 years. Chillingworth’s reference to a black flower symbolizes evil and revenge that is to follow. I appreciate how Hester hasn’t become haughty even after people no longer consider that A for adulteress. Her decision to tell Dimmesdale about Chillingworth’s real identity arouses high expectations for the next chapter
You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death; and still he knows you not. In permitting this, I have surely acted a false part by the only man to whom the power was left me to be true!”
“What choice had you?” asked Roger Chillingworth. “My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon,—thence, peradventure, to the gallows!
I can feel guilt and a high degree of confidence in Hester’s words. She knows its no one but her husband and she’s disappointed because the last time they spoke he made it clear himself he wouldn’t take revenge. Yet Chillingworth does the opposite and seeing from his reply he makes it look like he’s done a big favor by poisoning him slowly rather than revealing him in the public and causing him embarrassment.
You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death; and still he knows you not. In permitting this, I have surely acted a false part by the only man to whom the power was left me to be true!”
“What choice had you?” asked Roger Chillingworth. “My finger, pointed at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a dungeon,—thence, peradventure, to the gallows!
I can feel guilt and a high degree of confidence in Hester’s words. She knows its no one but her husband and she’s disappointed because the last time they spoke he made it clear himself he wouldn’t take revenge. Yet Chillingworth does the opposite and seeing from his reply he makes it look like he’s done a big favor by poisoning him slowly rather than revealing him in the public and causing him embarrassment.
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