Chillingworth's Revenge In Arthur Dimmesdale
Revenge is what Chillingworth wanted to give the man that committed adultery with his wife. That man turned out to be Arthur Dimmesdale, the beloved reverend of the town.Revenge takes many shapes and Chillingworth's took the shape of torturing Dimmesdale’s soul. Dimmesdale was like a snake that jumped into a hole and could not get out. However Roger Chillingworth was outside the hole, poking and stabbing the snake with a stick. He was refusing help to the snake to get out of the hole and just let it suffer in there. Finally the snake managed to climb out of the hole and that was when Dimmesdale died. Chillingworth somewhat completed his revenge in the sense that he did manage to torture Dimmesdale by keeping him alive. Though in a sense he