Hester Prynne was forced to live with her sin on her chest every day. Unlike Dimmesdale, anyone who …show more content…
One of the many things the Puritans are against is revenge, and even though they did not know of Chillingworth's sin, it paid a toll on him. As Hester observes Chillingworth the narrator notes, "This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analyzed and gloated" (Hawthorne 140). Chillingworth suffered so much from his sin, he was no longer the same person. He had aged and lost all signs of happiness on his face. His wrongdoing had consumed his life to where that was all he could focus on. For seven years, Chillingworth had wasted his life seeking revenge, and never succeeded. None of the townspeople knew of his "sin" yet it was still able to consume his life without any judgement besides his own. Chillingworth's true identity was stolen by his sin, and would never be able to be