tead turns into the devil. A large number...affirmed that Roger Chillingworth's aspect had undergone a remarkable change while he had dwelt in town, and especially since his abode with Mr.Dimmesdale. At first his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like. Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed, and which grew still the more obvious to sight the oftener they looked upon him. Hester begins to feel that Chillingworth's transformation is her fault. But he must assume the responsibility for having destroyed himself. It is he who surrendered his human sympathies in his quest for revenge. Chillingworth's worst sin is violating the sanctity of the human heart. He suffers the most, dying shortly after Dimmesdale's death. His vengeance was all that was driving him forward. It was his sole purpose for living. All his strength and energy all his vital and intellectual force--seemed at once to desert him insomuch that he positively withered up, shriveled away, and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun. This unhappy man had made the very principle of his life to consist of the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge and when, by its completest triumph and actualization, that evil principle was left no further material to support it, when, in short, there was no more Devil's work on earth for him to do so. The townspeople made Hester's situation even worse. They punished her for committing a sin, even though they committed sins themselves. The townspeople were then guilty of hypocrisy. The worst sin committed by the townspeople is the isolation they put Hester through. She was at a point where she would not go out in the daytime, just to avoid the people. Wearing her sin on her chest made the townspeople isolate her. They were all clear hypocrites for being the same people who went to church weekly, repenting their own sins. Nathan...
