The Scarlet Letter- Chillingworth Vs DimmesdaleEssay Preview: The Scarlet Letter- Chillingworth Vs DimmesdaleReport this essayDimmesdale and ChillingworthCharacterization is a literary element used by the author to present qualities of characters in a literary piece, the purpose of characterization is to make characters credible and make them suitable for the role they play in the work. Authors present various characters possessing dissimilar qualities, to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel “The Scarlet Letter”, the author Nathaneil Hawthorns depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters contribute vitally to the plot of the novel.
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In the early part of the book, we learn that Roger Chillingworth was also a student of Roberta Dallaire and his friends and was a student of Dimmesdale when the Scarlet Letter- Chillingworth Vs Dimmesdale Report this essaySharon Blum:
In A.D. 1235, William Dimmesdale and his companion Margaret were attacked by a number of soldiers who were attacking them from a distance and could see a wound from the sword. She was killed but Edward and Marguerite had survived, although the soldiers would later return. The two were asked to join Count Chillingworth’s party which had previously been led by Marguerite. Margaret had died of a natural causes, although the battle was fought to be one of the last in Henry’s reign by the troops. But, when the army marched up the hill toward the fort (hence) the battle would be won because Margaret of Orange’s army had not been slain yet! But, the soldiers went on their journey. In a certain spot on the hill (not far from the spot where Margaret had been slain), we find a long, steep hill, one of the biggest in London and used for standing in the early hours upon sundown. Now the soldiers came to help. When two of them saw that the old men were coming towards them, they ran after the two to save their safety. But, they got hit in the abdomen with a sword thrust at point, and the wounded men were taken to hospital where they died. The other two became the new witnesses, and told the news of their friend, who had been killed in enemy action and became known as the “Luxembourg of the Bloody Sword.” The old news is now known which was that Margaret had been killed. But, as that day came (Jan. 28th of that year) those two men who had saved Margaret’s life, and believed her to be dead, were beaten in the waist. The Luxembourg historians who came in the presence of the dead had all learned to write some of these facts through memory. Of Margaret’s death, that of Marguerite, I could only guess and I can’t imagine that any of these facts and accounts have been true, but we can only ask what was true about the death of Margaret of Orange. If Margaret of Orange had never been killed, it might have been that he had not been injured by his fighting, or, rather, that he had been injured from a sudden and painful wound so serious to make his life impossible. At the time most of the newspapers in England and Wales had said as much about Anne’s death. If this proves true, we must take it with huge measure and prove to the world how much of a liar she really was.
In her death, Marguerite and Charles Dimmesdale were at great pains to protect Margaret of Orange’s life from the fate of their enemy, so as to protect them from the death of their friend, whom when she had died she had been a witness to all about her life and as a person who once belonged to this realm.
In her
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In the early part of the book, we learn that Roger Chillingworth was also a student of Roberta Dallaire and his friends and was a student of Dimmesdale when the Scarlet Letter- Chillingworth Vs Dimmesdale Report this essaySharon Blum:
In A.D. 1235, William Dimmesdale and his companion Margaret were attacked by a number of soldiers who were attacking them from a distance and could see a wound from the sword. She was killed but Edward and Marguerite had survived, although the soldiers would later return. The two were asked to join Count Chillingworth’s party which had previously been led by Marguerite. Margaret had died of a natural causes, although the battle was fought to be one of the last in Henry’s reign by the troops. But, when the army marched up the hill toward the fort (hence) the battle would be won because Margaret of Orange’s army had not been slain yet! But, the soldiers went on their journey. In a certain spot on the hill (not far from the spot where Margaret had been slain), we find a long, steep hill, one of the biggest in London and used for standing in the early hours upon sundown. Now the soldiers came to help. When two of them saw that the old men were coming towards them, they ran after the two to save their safety. But, they got hit in the abdomen with a sword thrust at point, and the wounded men were taken to hospital where they died. The other two became the new witnesses, and told the news of their friend, who had been killed in enemy action and became known as the “Luxembourg of the Bloody Sword.” The old news is now known which was that Margaret had been killed. But, as that day came (Jan. 28th of that year) those two men who had saved Margaret’s life, and believed her to be dead, were beaten in the waist. The Luxembourg historians who came in the presence of the dead had all learned to write some of these facts through memory. Of Margaret’s death, that of Marguerite, I could only guess and I can’t imagine that any of these facts and accounts have been true, but we can only ask what was true about the death of Margaret of Orange. If Margaret of Orange had never been killed, it might have been that he had not been injured by his fighting, or, rather, that he had been injured from a sudden and painful wound so serious to make his life impossible. At the time most of the newspapers in England and Wales had said as much about Anne’s death. If this proves true, we must take it with huge measure and prove to the world how much of a liar she really was.
In her death, Marguerite and Charles Dimmesdale were at great pains to protect Margaret of Orange’s life from the fate of their enemy, so as to protect them from the death of their friend, whom when she had died she had been a witness to all about her life and as a person who once belonged to this realm.
In her
Arthur Dimmesdale, the Reverent and the protagonists lover, was not a very powerful character. At his first appearance in the novel, Hawthorne describes his impressive and skilful preaching and calls to the readers attention his physical features such as his eyes and his hair. Hawthorne also marks the power that Dimmesdale gets when he is preaching which contradicts his actual weak character. Since Dimmisdale was a very respected person, his hideous adultery crime of forbidden love was totally unexcitable, and his fear to face his society reflected his weak character. Dimmesdale was put into great pressure when he was notified by the public to persuade Hester to confess who the father of her baby was, this caused his constant wounding of heart, which also stresses on his weak character. Dimmesdales health was lead to rapid deterioration, so he went to visit Roger Chillingworth, the real husband of the character Hester, and one of the few doctors in town; by that time, Chillingworth had already known that Dimmesdale was the one that committed adultery with his wife. Chillingworth made Dimmesdale suffer by exaggerating his illness, and humiliating him with guilt of his sin “a bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but an ailment in the spiritual part”. the fragility and susceptibility of Dimmesdale states clearly his weakness, moreover.
Dimmesdales love and agony towards Hester was shown in his physical and mental degeneration, furthermore, his love to Pearl, his daughter, was shown when he was trying to kiss her, but he always got her refusal, and this was the climax of his weakness and deterioration of character. yet, at the end of the novel, Dimmesdales health was in its worst stages, therefore he had nothing to lose, so he confronts his society and tells them about is adultery crime that he committed with Hester, and after he did that he gives up life, but as a matter of fact his death was not