The Weed That Becomes Uprooted In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger Chillingworth leeches on Arthur Dimmesdale in order to get retribution on him. He wants revenge on Dimmesdale because Dimmesdale and Hester, Roger's wife, had a child together. As he sucked the life out of Dimmesdale, Roger's physical characteristics are transformed to resemble a devil. Roger can also be compared to a weed because a weed is something annoying that lives off of other plants. Once Dimmesdale dies, Roger begins to wilt and die too because there is nothing left for him to nourish him.Roger chose Reverend Dimmesdale for his spiritual guide. Around this same time, Dimmesdale began to look pale. The townspeople thought it was because he was so devoted to his work. The reason why he began to look so sickly was because Roger had started to prey on Dimmesdale. After a short time Chillingworth and Dimmesdale began to live together. The townspeople observed about Roger, " Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed...."(117). The more time Roger spends with Dimmesdale the more pernicious he looks. Roger is preying on the evils that are inside Dimmesdale for committing a sin. In turn, Dimmesdale is getting sicker and sicker as he suffers from what he did."He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption"(118-119). Roger began to investigate every facet of Dimmesdale's life. He is searching for evidence that Dimmesdale has committed a sin. Roger has dug into Dimmesdale's soul and found corruption inside. Roger is part of every aspect of the Reverend's life because Roger can not live without feeding the evil into him.Hester could tell " With her knowledge of a train of circumstances h...
