Quote:
"I have thought of death," said she, "have wished for it, would even have prayed for it, were it to fit that such as I should pray for anything. Yet, if death be in the this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even now at my lips."(70)(Hester)- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Explanation: This quote reflects on how Hester Prynne is not so sure about trusting Roger Chillingsworth, because later on they both have something to hide meaning Hester is not revealing who the father of Pearl is to Roger and plus Roger doesn't want his true identity to be revealed by the townspeople so Hester has to keep it as a secret for him. Both these two characters has illuminated a sense of mystery and they don't even trust each other yet because they don't recognize who they are yet, its like their hidden under a veiled mask.
Question:
1. Why does Hester fear Chillingworth?
Question:
1. Why does Hester fear Chillingworth?
2. What does Chillingworth intend to do with Hester Prynne case? Why?
3. What is Chillingworth’s attitude toward Hester when visiting her in prison? Explain.
1) At first it seems as if Hester is intimidated when she sees chillingsworth because he arrives at a time when she is being punished. she feel ashamed and embarassed because he was her husband.
ReplyDelete3) Chillingsworth demands Hester to tell him who the father of her child is. Hester, of course, refuses and then he tells her not to mention to anyone that she knows him and that he was her husband. He also tells her that he will find out who the child's father is. He seems aggressive at first but then he gives a sense of kindness and that he will help her out.
Hester felt fear but because Roger kept intimidating her by asking who the father of the baby is.
ReplyDeleteNow they are going to be helping eachother out because they both have a dark past that they want no one to know about.
Hester doesn't help Roger because of the "dark past" -- she does it out of guilt for her true wronging of him. Roger, in many ways, in a odd creature. For one, he wants to remain hidden, so that he may extract his revenge (though he wants Hester to believe he shall not hurt the man with whom Hester had an affair) even though the Puritan society would never have blamed him.
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