With all the betrayals the Chillingworth and The Master suffered through the natural thing to want is revenge and that is exactly what they both achieve through several events after their betrayals. Chillingworth gets his revenge on Hester through the Puritan Society. The Puritans society helps Chillingworth get his revenge by the society hurting Hester Prynne with their cruel behavior towards hers. They taunt her and mock her and they put her on the scaffold so everybody can see her shame. (Hawthorn 43-51##) The Master gets his revenge on the Doctor through the Time Lords of Gallifrey. The Doctor in his attempt of defense of Gallifrey against the Deleks became an outcast. Someone to look at in shame because he betrayed his name. He wasn’t …show more content…
a healer but a destroyer and this was one of the worst things you could commit in their society. (Doctor Who, Director## Day of the Doctor) Both men didn’t even have to do anything to achieve their personal revenge on the ones that hurt.
The society around them gave them the revenge both desired without having to lift a finger. Their societies they were living both had very different standards of what was unforgivable sin. Even with these very different standards both societies had the same very similar reactions to the sins when they were broke. People who broke it were outcasts and judged harshly. The cruelty in both cultures helps the men succeed in part of their revenge. Now that the Chillingworth and The Master have got to witness the suffering caused by others on those that hurt them it’s their turn to hurt them. Chillingworth first action is sense he can’t get under Hester skin he will get under the skin of the one she loved instead of him. Dimmesdale. As Dimmesdale health begins to fail Chillingworth is called into help him. He now living with Dimmesdale taking care of him. While its unknown if it’s Chillingworth that actually does it. It’s thought that he decorated Dimmesdale room which has two focus points. A tapestry of telling the story of King David and Bathsheba which is a story of betrayal and adultery or a window that looks out at a
cemetery. (Hawthorne 99-106) Chillingworth was able to get under Dimmesdale skin with his choices of decor. The Master way of getting under The Doctor’s skin is a little different but still just as effective as Chillingworth. The Doctor’s goal is to protect the human races from alien invaders. All he wants is to protect them. The Master helps shows The Doctor the damages he causes to the human race after one of his acts of protections of the human race. In the episode “The Long Game” the Doctor shuts down a TV station that was slowing the progression of humans thinking that in turn this would help it spend up to where it was supposed to be in the time period. (“The Long Game,” Doctor Who, ##) But in episode “Bad Wolf” The Doctor learns that it sent the humans into a dark age and eventually a new station appeared that was worse than the ones before. (“Bad Wolf,” Doctor Who ##) Both techniques employed by The Master and Chillingworth to help achieve there revenge involves very little action on their parts. Both men just exposed guilt their enemies had inside. They brought it to the surface to create hurt within their intended target. Chillingworth and The Master both use effective techniques to hurt their target. They use the easiest thing to twist against a man and that is his mind. The mind can be easily tricked and confused with the right amount of guilt. The men take this weakness and use it for their own advantage. Chillingworth and The Master are so similar with the way they twist each enemy’s faults against them. These men also playing with their enemies’ guilt tell it started to consume their enemies very soul. D. L. Mosher describes that “guilt may be defined as a generalized or expectancy for self-mediated punishment for violating, anticipating the violation of, or failure to attain internalized standards of proper behavior.” (Mosher, 162##) This quote perfectly describes what both Chillingworth and The Doctor are feeling. They are waiting for a punishment that hasn’t come yet and Chillingworth and The Master are going to make them feel worse tell their personal punishment comes. Chillingworth has figured out what is causing this intense amount guilt with Dimmesdale. He plays on this when he talks about finding a new type plant on an unmarked grave and tells on how the plants possibly “grew out of his heart , and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him…” (Hawthorne 108##) This strikes fear into Dimmesdale heart because he knows he also has a hideous secret that he believes will being going to the grave with him. The Master goes a little different root with inflicting guilt on him but it still results in the same thing. The Master lets The Doctor think he saving a part of the last of humanity. The Master has him help him create something that destroys the innocent people. Later on The Master shows The Doctor what he truly helped create which were monster left from The Doctors ‘help’. (“The Sounds of Drums,” “Last of the Time Lords” Doctor Who ##) Chillingworth and The Master bring focus to guilt of each of their targets. Playing it off as a something little but truly knowing the effects that it will have on the men. A clever guise to keep the focus off them and on the ones they consider the guilty ones. Thye keep their revenge to mental games because it’s hard to catch someone that hasn’t done one physical thing to you. But the last act of Chillingworth and The Master was to get physical revenge on Dimmsdale and The Doctor. Breaking there pattern on mind games they were bored of the mind games. Chillingworth didn’t do much because he realized his target was already broken and had being giving himself physical punishment. Chillingworth only ripped of Dimmesdale shirt and this showed all the evidence Chillingworth needed. While it’s not directly said it is assumed that a red A is seen on Dimmesdale chest this was enough for Chillingworth. He felt that his revenge was almost complete. (Hawthorn 105-106##) The Master’s revenge was going to go farther than Chillingworth’s revenge. The Master physical revenge was going to be to kill The Doctor. The Master had captured him and had slowly been letting him day tell The Doctors companion came to save him. The Doctor narrowly escapes being killed by the enrage man. (“Last of the Time Lords” Doctor Who ##) Chillingworth and The Master both plan mind games with prey before going in for the kill. They both wait tell their targets are at their weakest because of their prior acts and then go in to end it all. This is the downfall of both men. Both have waited a little too long and now both their down falls are going to happen.
Reflecting on these events, he turned his back on them when they stood on the scaffolding in the beginning, when he went to give Pearl a kiss on her forehead, and during the middle of the night after Hester and him talked. Unlike Dimmesdale, Chillingworth expresses no remorse whatsoever. Both men are well-educated as pastors and the other as doctors. These men seem to resemble both sides of the human society. The lack of faith is that Dimmesdale is a pastor and therefore must believe that God is in control and that his heavenly riches are better than anything else that can be offered to him.
Years ago, Hester promised Chillingworth to keep his identity a secret, thus allowing him to do evil to Dimmesdale. Chillingworth believes that it was his fate to change from a kind man to a vengeful fiend. He believes that it’s his destiny to take revenge and thus would not stop until he does so.
Chillingworth, the injured husband, seeks no revenge against Hester, but he is determined to find the man who has violated his marrige: “He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, and thou dost; but I shall read it on his heart.” Chillingworth comments: “Believe me, Hester, there are few things.
When the reader first meets Roger Chillingworth standing watching Hester on the scaffold, he says that he wishes the father could be on the scaffold with her. “‘It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side” (46). At this point, Chillingworth wishes that Mr. Dimmesdale was also receiving the sort of shame Hester is being put through. Throughout the first few chapters of the novel, however, Chillingworth’s motives become more and more malicious. By the time Chillingworth meets Hester in her prison cell, he has decided to go after Mr. Dimmesdale’s soul. Chillingworth turns to this goal because Mr. Dimmesdale did not endure Hester’s shame on the scaffold. Had Mr. Dimmesdale chosen to reveal himself at the time of Hester’s shame, he would not have had to endure the pain of Roger Chillingworth’s tortures of his soul.
To begin, Chillingworth’s hatred begins with a need for revenge. Chillingworth reveals these feelings when he
Secondly, Chillingworth’s actions were motivated by hate and a lust for revenge that overpowered him in the end. Therefore an awful change must have taken place in the doctor since “human nature loves more readily than it hates” (156). The actions of Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth were all motivated by a deep passion for one thing or another. However, the difference in their actions was that the adulteress and the minister acted out of love for each other while her husband acted out of anger and jealousy. Also, the physician underwent such a change that “there came a glare of red light out of his eyes; as if the old man’s soul were on fire, and kept smoldering duskily within his breast” (166). Eventually Chillingworth’s heart became so twisted and contorted that there were very noticeable differences in his personality.
The sins that Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth committed had consequences on their life. Hester’s sin, adultery, caused her to be outcast in the Puritan community and caused her to live constantly in persecution of others in her village as seen in the quote “...little Puritans… got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashion, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not infrequently reviled them with their tongues” (Page 141, Hawthorn). Dimmesdale's sin, adultery, affected his ability to lift his life by causing him to be constantly ill as seen in the quote “It be the Soul’s disease” (Page 205, Hawthorn). Chillingworth sin, revenge, this controlled his life and everything he did causing him to become the ministers physician as shown in the quote “If that has not avenged me, I can do no
The townspeople first saw Chillingworth as a miracle sent from God to heal Dimmesdale, but they soon saw evil in his face and came to believe that he was “Satan’s emissary” (Hawthorne 101). When Dimmesdale first met Chillingworth, they had an instant connection and became good friends, but after living in the same house, Dimmesdale came to loathe his personal doctor. When talking to Hester and Pearl on the scaffold, the minister says of Chillingworth: “I have a nameless horror of the man” (Hawthorne 123). Hester sees that Chillingworth has changed since she first met him in England. She notices that, “The former aspect of an intellectual and studious man, calm and quiet, which was what she best remembered in him, had altogether vanished, and been succeeded by an eager, searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look” (Hawthorne 132). She knows that she is the cause of this major change, and she tries to convince him to forget his revenge and become a human again. However, he does not listen to Hester, and she sees that he is set in his ways and she moves
With a raging desire for knowledge and a single-minded pursuit of retribution, Chillingworth’s demonic actions lead him to damnation, demonstrating the need for reconciliation in times of conflict. Two Wrongs Make a Wrong Revenge. It exists within everyone. Pervading throughout all social relationships, revenge is damaging and detrimental to any hopes of reconciliation. Those who commit revenge are cowardly people unwilling to face the harsh realities of life.
The fact that revenge destroys both the victim and the seeker is another theme presented in the Scarlet Letter. Dimmesdale is the victim of Chillingworth’s revenge upon Hester and whoever her lover happened to be. Dimmesdale, beside his self-inflicted harm was also not helped by the fact Chillingworth enjoyed watching him waste away. However, Chillingworth is also subject to this destiny as evidence by his change in the novel. Chillingworth was considered wise and aged in the beginning of the novel, although, later he is seen as being dusky and evil.
Even though many saw the difference in Hester there was still Chillingworth who still wanted his revenge. He becomes obsessed with the punishment of the "A" and does a devilish dance when he realizes the powerful effect it has had on Dimmesdale. (Blake, "Hester's Bewitched Triangle: Within the Spell of the "A") Chillingworth pretends to be a friend to Dimmesdale and becomes his physician. Dimmesdale becomes miserable because he hidden his true identity. Hester, hast thou found peace? Whatever of good capacity there originally was in me, all of God's gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment. Hester, I am most miserable! ( Hawthorne 208–209) Dimmesdale begins to torment himself with all of his thoughts and tells Hester he wants to be apart of the family they’ve made together.
...rth's crimes against the Lord are more malevolent than those committed by Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale. Chillingworth's quest for revenge and truth leads him down a path of sin, and in the Puritan perspective, down the path to Hell.
When he arrived in the town when Hester was first shamed on the scaffold for her adultery, Chillingworth was an unknown doctor who happened to be able to help Hester. He remained as a helpful physician, and eventually learned of Dimmesdale’s sins. Rather than publicly exposing Dimmesdale for what he had done, Chillingworth used his newfound knowledge to his advantage, exploiting Dimmesdale’s guilt to further shame him. “Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it. It was not, indeed, precisely that which he had laid out for himself to tread… To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain!” (92-93). Chillingworth was cunning in how he hurt Dimmesdale, and was sure his public portrayal did not threaten him in the least as a suspect of Dimmesdale’s troubles. He became a “trusted friend”, so he was able to get very close to Dimmesdale and even move in with him, further increasing his ability to hurt Dimmesdale more and more. But rather than being a doctor to aid Dimmesdale with his health as everyone thought him to be, Chillingworth instead turned darker and darker in his ways, paradoxically turning to hurt Dimmesdale rather than help him. He was virtually doing the opposite of what the
He actually does so, slowly over the years he has manipulated the Revered mentally and physically by pretending to be his doctor. Mr. Chillingworth thoughts are not clear but in his actions it shows what his intentions are. He wants to harm the Reverend but does not seek to harm Hester. He feels that it is his fault that Hester now has to live the life she is living. But he feels Mr. Dimmesdale could‘ve prevented that, but since he didn‘t Mr. Chillingworth has evil thoughts about plotting revenge against the Reverend. The manner of Mr. Chillingworth could come off as very dominate. Everyone else can see through him in a way. At first they all praised him and thought he was worthy. Then slowly his true colors started showing. They saw his way of manipulations. Then he started getting nicknames. One being Leech, because he was a
As the novel progressed, Chillingworth fits the profile of ‘vengeance destroys the avenger’. When Roger Chillingworth is first introduced to the reader, we see a kind old man, who just has planted the seeds for revenge. Although he did speak of getting his revenge, when Hester first met her husband in her jail cell, she did not see any evil in him. Because Hester would not tell him who she had slept with, Chillingworth vowed that he would spend the rest of his life having his revenge and that he would eventually suck the soul out of the man, whom she had the affair with. “There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. I shall see him tremble. I shall feel myself shudder, suddenly and unawares” (Hawthorne, 101) As the novel develops, Roger Chillingworth has centered himself on Arthur Dimmesdale, but he cannot prove that he is the “one.” Chillingworth has become friends with Dimmesdale, because he has a “strange disease,” that needed to be cured; Chillingworth suspects something and begins to drill Dimmesdale. “… The disorder is a strange one…hath all the operation of this disorder been fairly laid open to me and recounted to me” (Hawthorne, 156).