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Isolation In The Scarlet Letter By Roger Chillingworth

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Finally, Roger Chillingworth’s birth-given isolation turns him into something monstrous and evil, for his deformity of body unjustly sets him apart from the rest of society. While talking with Hester in her prison cell, Chillingworth admits that he had deluded himself “with the idea that intellectual gifts might veil physical deformity” (71), illustrating the amount of effort he put into trying to achieve acceptance only to have his wife, like the rest of society, simply reject him. Chillingworth’s rejection from society places him in a remote setting in which he develops demonic tendencies and features. For instance, while caring for the minister, a majority of the townspeople notice how the physician obtains “something ugly and evil in his
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