Wisdom in Essences
Confucius saies that, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Nomatter a revenge successes of no, it harms the person who does it. In a Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fiction book The Scarlet Letter, the character Roger Chillingworth represents someone who twists his purpose of life and tries to ruminate on Dimmesdale when he realizes his wife Hester Prynne commits adultery with Dimmesdale and has an illegitimate daughter, Pearl. When Chillingworth comes back to the Puritan town in Boston, he looks like a man “well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholarlike visage, with eyes dim and bleared… with left shoulder a trifle higher than the right” (Hawthorne 56) Chillingworth's adverse physiognomy makes him becomes …show more content…
The moment Chillingworth sees that Dimmesdale wants Hester and Pearl stand with him, Chillingworth’s “...so dark, disturbed and evil… rose up out of some nether region” (139) facial expresses claims how terrified he is and Dimmesdale’s behavior digs out his deepest fear. Even Chillingworth jumps out from the crown, he still cannot stop Dimmesdale anymore. At the end, Dimmesdale speaks the truth of his secret sin and dies without regrets or guilties. But Chillingworth loses his goal for his life and refuses to accept the fact. When Dimmesdale dies on the platform, “Old Roger Chillingworth knelt down beside him, with a blank, dull countenance, out of which the life seemed to have departed” (232). The soul sucks Dimmesdale’s life for nutrient dies with him. Chillingworth’s mind does not know how to direct his physical body anymore with an escaped soul. Lastly, Chillingworth uses all his strength and energy on Dimmesdale, so that makes him looks “...like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun” (246). Vengeance buries Chillingworth’s intelligent and directs his soul to a journey on the wrong