, the
estranged husband of , has as an ultimate
goal: to see who is the man with which Hester Prynne
committed the sin of
adultery. He aims to find out who is this mysterious character for whom
Hester has rendered herself as a pariah just for the sake of keeping his
identity
safe.
This quest for the identity of Hester's
lover leads Chillingworth to
enter Hester's settlement as a "practitioner" of
medicine, ending up in the care of
Reverend ; the man who is actually
Hester's lover although this is only suspected, not known, by
Chillingworth.
Once Chillingworth becomes aware of who Dimmesdale
really is,
the psychological punishment under which he puts the man
is...
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