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The Scarlet Letter

The courts of Judge Judith hereby charge Mr. Roger Chillingworth with concealing his identity with the intent of harm to another human being.
Throughout the whole of the book, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger Chillingworth only once admits to being the husband of Hester Prynne. He says this only when they are both alone in the prison after Hester is publicly displayed for the day, Chillingworth says, "There are none in this land that know me. Breathe not, to any human soul, that though didst ever call me husband!"(pg. 71). One must assume that Chillingworth's actual last name is Prynne, since this is the last name Hester, his wife, uses when she is residing in Boston, Massachusetts. There are many mitigating factors that are involved in this crime, but certainly none that excuse it, since this choice was made with Chillingworth's own positive voluntariness.
Chillingworth's subjective moral judgment was very selfish. This is so because one of the mitigating factors......


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