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Roger Chillingworth
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about Hester Prynne, who committed adultery in Puritan Boston. She was shamed, and sent to the scaffold, where she was publicly humiliated, and sent back to prison. After her release, she tried to live out the rest of her life in the outskirts of the town. The only companion she had was her daughter, Pearl who is the living proof of her crime. Hester and Pearl live their lives together, trying to move past the shame that Hester had brought on them. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the local minister, and the fellow adulterer with Hester. He tries to hide from his image, because of his horrible sin. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband was a businessman in England, and sent Hester to America before him so he could clean up his affairs. Throughout the story, the four main characters, show many examples of their duality which is the concept that man (woman) possesses two antagonistic forces: good and evil, which are in......

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