Roger Chillingworth Character Analysis

impulses (the scene in the forest). That is why I would not attribute this character to the nature of allegory which always sharpens one abstract trait.
The image of Roger Chillingworth is much like the image of pastor Dimmesdale: both characters sharpen one leading trait. But if in Arthur Dimmesdale we found some contradictions and changes in the nature which allowed us to judge him not as a single line diagram, then Roger is an absolute and complete embodiment of revenge and nothing more. We do not know what kind of person Chillingworth was before he returned to Boston, we didn’t know anything about his pastimes and position in life. All that we know is his fierce vindictive character. From the first page ,he speaks only of vengeance

for the still unknown lover of Hester.( "It irks me, nevertheless, that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side. But he will be known! - He will be known! - He will be known! ")
Roger Chillingworth is not a symbol for all that is inherent to the symbol is missing in this character. We see here not even a living person but a circuitry, the personification of one vice, namely the desire for revenge and to harass his victim to the last:”It is not granted me to pardon”,-says Roger”.
Roger can’t even be called an artistic image, as he doesn’t carry any aesthetic value to the reader .Thus, this figure is a schematic personification of vengeance and does not have the artistry that was characteristic to Hester. Revenge, indeed, was the whole purpose of Roger’s life. He lives as it may seem sinister, to torment Arthur Dimmesdale. And the reverend’s death led him to his own extinction
The romantic novel “The Scarlet Letter” is a complete sign system, where each object is endowed with a certain symbolic significance. The symbolic plan of the narrative exists on a par with the real one, and moreover, these structural layers are in inseparable unity.
In the novel we meet simple signs that have strapped meanings (wound in the form of the letter ”A” on Dimmesdale’s chest), symbols of nature and things(the scaffold, the brook), as well as artistic symbols characterized by bright and colorful delineation. Thus, the