y forms like that of a devil. This mark is the most pernicious thing about Reverend Dimmesdale because it is the most obvious sign of his sin. Roger takes that evilness and uses it to transform himself into a fiend. Roger also takes the perverse ideas he sucked out of Dimmesdale to change him into a devil. This is another example of how Roger is incredibly obsessed with Dimmesdale's life. "-he knew that no friendly hand was pulling his heart strings, and that an eye was looking curiously into him which sought only evil, and found it. But he knew not that the eye and hand were mine! With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams, and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse and despair of pardon; as a foretaste of what awaits him at the grave. But in the constant shadow of my presence.(157)"This is another example of Roger's parasitic relationship with Dimmesdale. The author's words, "-he knew that no friendly hand was pulling is heart strings" manifests that Roger was inside of Dimmesdale where it was easier to suck the life out of him. His eye, which only sought evil, shows that Roger wanted revenge which turned into an obsession. The phrase, "in the constant shadow of my presence", proves Roger was always following Dimmesdale and that there was no hope for Reverend. " Nothing was more remarkable than the change which took place, almost immediately after Mr.Dimmesdale's death, in the appearance and demeanor of the old man known as Roger Chillingworth. 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....
