Chillingworth's Use Of Imagery In 'The Scarlet Letter'

One good example of imagery in the novel “The Scarlet Letter” is in Chapter 4, where Chillingworth comes to the prison to visit Hester Prynne and her baby Pearl. In this chapter, Hester is in a nervous breakdown while Pearl is having painful spasms. Later, Chillingworth comes to visit their cell where he gives both of them medicine to calm them down and be able to have a conversation with Hester. In their conversation, he tells Hester that he’s trying to hunt down Pearl’s father by reading the Scarlet A “on his heart”. Hester promises not to reveal her true husband’s doing, but at the same time thinks doing so might ruin her in the future. The passage thoroughly describes the character’s actions in full detail as if the reader was in the actual scene in the book. It’s very well detailed when it comes to sensory details, such as when it described Chillingworth quietly entering Hester’s cell to see her. Chapter 4’s use of imagery is to represent how Hester and Chillingworth interact with

He says that Pearl will never recognize him due to not ever meeting him throughout her life. In fact, the true father of Pearl is Arthur Dimmesdale, as this is the one who Hester allegedly committed adultery with thus becoming pregnant. After taking out a medicine that’ll be used to treat Pearl, Hester rejects it, showing that she rather have unfortunate things happen to her other than help. The relationship between Hester and Chillingworth so far is that they try to reach out to each other with their problems, especially from Chillingworth to Hester because she has suffered much more than him. Chillingworth calls Hester out to be a “foolish woman” for not accepting the offer, and asks for what reason he would ever harm a baby. This comes to show how much he’s willing to help in Hester’s situation yet proves to be helpful in many