nto prison until her child is born. This is around where Hawthorne starts his novel, when Hester is about to leave the prison to receive her punishment. “When the young woman— the mother of this child— stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom”(50). This introduction leaves you wondering unlike the movie. You know that adultery has been committed but the father of the child is still unknown. The narrator manages to weave many verbal ironies around the identity of Dimmesdale. But you soon realize that the truth is tainted with infernal spite. The movie lacks this uncertainty. In both the novel and the movie you are introduced to the character of Roger Chillingworth, who’s way of revenge is different and not as powerful in the movie. In the movie Roger Chillingworth goes to town portraying a man who was kidnapped by the Indians, and took to their ways with alarming enthusiasm. In fact, he becomes a little too spiritual for the Tribe’s taste, and when Roger starts dancing around the fire with a dead deer on his back, his captors hastily send him back to his own people. At this point, Roger has flipped out and is totally insane that the Indians are scared of him. Upon his release, Roger heads for the New England colony and finds Hester with her illegitimate child and plots a twisted revenge. One that culminates into a Indian massacre. He prowls around in the night killing off innocent people so that he might blame witches and friendly Indians for the incidents. This form of revenge is used to capture an audience but does not have the sense of meaning the book has. Which uses the internal infliction of torture through the mind. Chillingworth’s motives in the book are evil in intent, but the effect his methods have on the religious motives of Dimmesdale shows what happens when the easy crutch of emotionalism and s...
