Roger Prynne In The Scarlett Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roger Prynne, also known as Roger Chillingworth, is an intellectual who lives in England. He focuses most of his time studying physics. He given the description of an aged man with unproportioned shoulders. He is married to a beautiful young women, Hester Prynne, who is a generation younger than himself. He sends her across the seas to join the Puritan community in Boston, Massachusetts. He stays in England to finish some of his studies. Hester expects to see him again within one year. There are some troubles at sea and Roger gets delayed. After this delay of on year he gets captured and held hostage by an Indian tribe. In captivity he learns various skills and knowledge by observing the natives. He is held in captivity for one year. With two

Hester was on the scaffold, wearing a dress with the letter “A” written on it, she is also a hugging very vigorously a young baby girl. It doesn’t take him long to realize what his wife had done when he was gone. The crowd had formed a blockade, making it impossible for Roger to get any closer to confront his wife. His wife made a promise with him to keep his identity a secret. Roger changes his last name from Prynne to Chillingworth. At the same time of his arrival he finds out that Reverend Dimmesdale, the town’s spiritual leader had recently become in ill health. He had become more pale and weak, also he would put his hand over his chest very often. Roger takes advantage of the matter and befriends Dimmesdale. The townspeople said that God must have sent him to help Dimmesdale get better. At first the townspeople said Roger looked very scholarly like and wanted to help Dimmesdale with all good intentions. Roger befriends Dimmesdale and becomes his personal physicist. They even become roommates so that they could be together more often to give Roger the chance to examine him more. He focuses more on Dimmesdale’s mind of thought rather than his physical

The townspeople start to change their mind on Roger; they say that his face had become uglier and eviler and that maybe Satan had sent him to tempt Dimmesdale. A couple of days later, they get into a conversation, whether or not sins should be kept secret. Roger says that if a man has sinned he should make it publicly known and if they try to hide it they are only deceiving themselves before God, because God will know and punish them on judgement day. Dimmesdale disagrees with what Roger had said. He believes that once everyone knows your sin you cannot do any more good work for God. After their discussion, Dimmesdale falls into a deep slumber. It doesn’t take long for Roger to creep in and notices that Dimmesdale is in a very unusual deep sleep. To his advantage, he can now physically examine Dimmesdale’s body without him knowing. He pulls aside his shirt and right away looks upon his chest, the same area he is feeling pain. The moment Roger was waiting for had come. His suspicions of the secret Dimmesdale was hiding was put to an end. On Dimmesdale’s chest was the Scarlett Letter. Roger walked away to safer grounds and a large smirk grew upon his