American Literature
She also commited a crime when she aided in hiding who Roger Chillingworth was. Once again this desicion led to both good
things and bad. Had she told everyone who Chillingworth really was she might have been put to death for adultery as one of the reasons for not
killing her was she though her husband was dead. She did however pay for not confessing she knew who Chillingworth in the same way she paid
for not confessing who the father of Pearl was. She had to watch her close freind Dimesdale be hunted down by Chillingworth. Then slowly tortured
until his life was worse than death. Overall Hester not confessing her crimes may or may not have worked out, we can't tell from the information in
the book. Roger Chillingworth, as he is now called, is also a sinner. He commits the most sins of anyone in the whole book. He starts by marrying
Hester without love. He says "We have wronged each other. Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into an unnatural relation
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