28.)"Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half-fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him, and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure."
Robert Chillingworth symbolizes the devil, and i have always grown up relating the devil and hell to fire. Everything that is beautiful or has to do with light he represents darkness and ugliness which is the exact opposite of what is always around him, so as he is present in this town he is ruining the beauty and innocence of people like Dimmesdale. He is literally driving the ministor insane always following him around, and asking him questions and constantly making the minister feel guilty. Chilingworths intentions don't come from something good he has changed into this monster who only wants revenge and as he is making Dimmesdale crazy he is going mad himself. Which is creating him into the devil.
29.) The theme Dark vs. Light
Dark is like hell and light is like heaven everything in this chapter that chillingworth is compared to has to do with dark and how he is ruining the light of things. The devil is always tampering with the beauty of nature trying to make things ugly and evil. Hester does not belong in hell she was forced to admit her sin and now she is paying for it every day but i don't think god is punishing her i think that she got a gift out of all this torture and that was pearl. Pearl is an angel sent from god and I think she is slowly changing hester with her nymph like ways. Making Hester confront her sin and not care what people think. Dimmesdale has not been able to forgive himself because he has not admitted his sin, i don't think he belongs in hell but as he keeps avoiding telling the truth he keeps getting weaker and weaker, just as chillingworth keeps getting uglier and older and sicker as he keeps getting more evil. I think that once Dimmesdale admits the truth he will be healthier and will not be on a path to a horrible place like hell.
29.)"Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance? Or would he spread bat’s wings and flee away, looking so much the uglier, the higher he rose towards Heaven"
I find it ironic that Chillingsworth is making Dimmesdale feel so guilty all the time, and secretly judging him when he has things to feel guilty about as well. I think that he actually once loved Hester and if you love someone, of course you will be jeolous but you want them to be happy. Instead Chillingworth is ruining the life of the man hester actually loves. So from this sin he commited just like he said about the old govener weeds will grow out of his grave. He does not belong in heaven at all he is compared to the leader of hell thats why he is called a bat; a bat only flys at night and they sleeping during the day. As we were kids we always grew up hearing stories about how vampires turn into bat which links to the leach he is a complete blood sucker and a life sucker.
Anna -do a couple of things here: 1) Post 1 entry per post so it's easier for me to respond to both of them. 2) Try to actually analysis the quotes. What does the quote have to do with your response? Make a connection. Pretend that I haven't read the book. Further make sure you're not quoting and spewing out ideas without the golden thread to tie quote and analysis together.
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