This writing focuses on the character Roger Chillingworth, who is one of the main characters in The Scarlet Letter. Chillingworth is first introduced as a "white man, dressed in a strange disorder of civilian clothes and savage costumes" ("Scarlet Letter: page 1365"). He goes on to describe him as an old man who has an appearance of high intellect and a deformed body. Chillingworth plays a chilling and disturbing character throughout the book. He behaves almost inhumanly, which can be noted that even Chillingworth's name should have painted him as a cold-hearted man. He was Hester's husband in the Scarlet Letter. He also took on the role of the town's doctor and was called a "leech", which was another name for doctors at the time ("Scarlet Letter: page 1371"). Another notable attribute of Chillingworth is that she deliberately keeps her identity a secret for most of the story: "when [Hester] seemed to recognize him, she slowly and calmly raised her finger, gestured with it in the air, and placed it on her his lips” (“Scarlet Letter: Page 1365”). Chillingworth's story begins when he arrives in Boston and sees his wife perform in public on the scaffold for the first time in two years he has done a wrong. He is told that he now wears the letter because he has committed a sinful act. From that moment on, Chillingworth's character becomes darker and more intent on revenge. However, an interesting fact is that his revenge is never taken to Hester: “We have wronged each other; mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed your nascent youth in a false and unnatural relation to my decadence. Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophized in vain, I do not seek. .. the medium of paper... in the sight of mortals, like an uprooted weed lying withered in the sun. ("Scarlet Letter: pages 1471-1472") Chillingworth's illness that kept him alive throughout the story ended up being the final cause of his death. Chillingworth's entire being was devoted to the "systematic pursuit and exercise of vengeance" and once his vengeance was complete, the evil that drove Chillingworth left him as an "unhumanized mortal" who did nothing but exist ("Letter scarlet: page 1472"). So it can be said that the evil possessed by Chillingworth ultimately turned within himself and not only destroyed the one it was aimed at, but also the one it pointed at. Works CitedBaym, Nina, editor. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 6th edition. Volume B. New York: Norton, 2003; Print Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850; Inside Norton