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Roger Chillingworth is the antagonist of the novel The Scarlet
Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the husband of Hester
Prynne, who cheated on him and had a child while he was away for
a very long time due to being kidnapped by indians, and as
punishment is permanently ostracized by the rest of the town and
made to wear a large red letter “A” on her chest for the rest of
her life, representing Adultery. Roger Chillingworth returns to
the village just as the public shaming ceremony is happening,
and he vows to find out the identity of the father and ruin his
life even more than Hester’s.  Chillingworth becomes the town
physician and receives a patient named Arthur Dimmesdale, who he
realizes is feeling depressed and guilty because he was the one
Hester had sex with, and with this discovery begins trying to
emotionally torment Dimmesdale over long periods of time, so as
to make him feel guilty and miserable as possible and destroy
his soul. Chill