Saturday, 28 May 2016

How does Roger Chillingworth's appearance change and how does Hester interpret the changes she sees in him?

certainly
did not have any advantages overwhen it came to his physiognomy. His age was not the matter, but
his "studious" look may have been one of the few redeeming qualities that Hester may
have found to tolerably accept a marriage proposal from him.

He is far from
the studious man that he used to be, however, and his anger, hatred and hunger for revenge is
evident in his body as well as in his soul. Hawthorne has a very interesting way to word
Chillingworth's change. In , he goes as far as to suggesting that the medicine man's diabolical
ways are responsible for the way in which he has contracted a new image that is entirely
detrimental.

Old Roger Chillingworth was a striking
evidence of mans faculty of transforming himself into a Devil, if he will only, for a reasonable
space of time, undertake a Devils office...

Hawthorne
(the narrator) offers that this transformation of Chillingworth does not make him look scary, or
even menacing. All it does...

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