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"The Scarlet Letter"Roger Chillinworth was once a good puritan who lived a good puritan tone 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 see 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 was all lost.Ever since Roger Chillingworths heart was broken and his life destroyed by Hester, he has deticated his life to revenge her and her adulterer, Dimmesdale. Being unable to return to his formula and good life practically destroyed and as he revenged them he becomes a devil (Chillingworth I have already told thee what I am A ogre Who made me so? It was myself cried Hester, shuddering.). That revenge is what made him try to prevent Dimmesdale from confessing in the last scaffold scene.The scarlet letter had hurt Hester all day and every moment a lot, so Chillingworth let it do t he avenge work alone without interfering (Hester Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me? I have leave thee to the scarlet letterreplied Roger Chillingworth.). But for Dimmesdale he had a whole dissimilar plan. He came back to town as a diametric person with a different name. Now he was Roger Chillingworth (We dont know his name before the first scaffold incident), a well-appreciated and educated atomic number 101. He came to help Dimmesdale, who was very sick. He became his close physician and they became very close friends.But the truth was that Chillingworth was constantly investigating Dimmesdale and reaching to the depth of his heart and prying his secrets and by that constantly hurting him. Dimmesdale was hurt because he lived a life of lies. To the world he was clergyman Dimmesdale - a wise man who was considered a saint, but in his heart he knew a different image of himself, as a sinner who is afraid to confess. Throughout the story it is hinted that if he had confessed he would have been relieved a long time ago and would not have been so sick.