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ation upon her mother’s legal husband Chillingworth. It was natural for them to keep a distance physically and mentally whenever they came across each other.
    When Chillingworth knew the facts，He became a lonely revenge-seeker. He appeared as calm, gentle, passionless. There was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in his unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever reeked upon an enemy. To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain! All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the pitiless, to him, the unforgiving! All that dark treasure to be lavished on the very man, to whom nothing else could so adequately pay the debt of vengeance.
To be a revenge-seeker, forlorn creature that he was, and more wretched than his victim. Roger Chillingworth will lonely in his whole life.
C. Dimmesdale’s Lonely Beggar for God’s Grace
    Dimmesdale was a hypocritical minister isolating himself from the community and his lover. He fell in love with Hester, he was the adulterer, but he did not admit when Hester had been in quested. Dimmesdale was guilty of two sins. One was the commission of adultery with Hester, and the other was his cowardly and hypocritical failure to confess. Unlike Hester who openly exposed her sin, Dimmesdale lived with a buried sin of his own, which was the source of his endless agony. In private, Arthur Dimmesdale tried to avoid a truly intimate relationship with his flock so that the community could not enter his world. He seemed to be at a loss in the pathway of human existence, and could be only at ease in some seclusion of his own. He walked alone, often in shadowy bypaths.
    He was a father with indifference to his daughter-Pearl. Dimmesdale was a young clergyman and he should be wholly devoted to god and followed all the strict puritan rules. In a moment of weakness, Dimmesdale and Hester became lovers, and a baby pearl resulted from their union as the product of the sin of adultery. Hester had made her sin publicly known, whereas Dimmesdale attempted to hide the shameful truth about him. Thus Dimmesdale was further guilty of the sin of dishonesty and hypocrisy besides the sin of adultery. In order to conceal his sins and keep his social position as a pious priest, Dimmesdale made strenuous efforts to keep aloof from his lover and his daughter.
    To be a pious puritans, Dimmesdale suffering under body disease, was gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul. In his secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. Oftentimes, this protestant and puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulder; laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh. It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious puritans, to fast,-not, however, like them, in order to purify the body and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination,-but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him, as an act of penance. He kept vigils, likewise, night after night, sometimes in utter darkness; sometimes with a glimmering lamp; and sometimes, viewing his own face in a lo