Chapter 9:
33. How does Chillingworth make a place for himself in Boston society? Why are we as readers suspicious of his professional and social motivations? Why does this suspicion seem to be absent from the narrator's tone?
- Chillingworth comes in to Boston and says he is a physician and since there were not a lot of people who knew about medicainine they would not make him leave. Chillingworth wants revenge on Hester and the father of Pearl, he knows something is weird with Dimmesdale so he decides to live with him so he can figure out what is wrong with him. Chillingworth knows that no medican could heal Dimmesdale so he decides that he will just go through his personal life and find out what in Dimmesdale soul is making him ill. The narrator does not have this in his tone because the reader already knows something is weird with Chillingworth.
36. What biblical stories are portrayed in the decorations of Dimmesdale's room? What themes or issues are suggested by these stories?
- On the Curtains in Dimmesdales room are images from the bible which were about adultery and what happens to the people who commit this sin.
- Chillingworth comes in to Boston and says he is a physician and since there were not a lot of people who knew about medicainine they would not make him leave. Chillingworth wants revenge on Hester and the father of Pearl, he knows something is weird with Dimmesdale so he decides to live with him so he can figure out what is wrong with him. Chillingworth knows that no medican could heal Dimmesdale so he decides that he will just go through his personal life and find out what in Dimmesdale soul is making him ill. The narrator does not have this in his tone because the reader already knows something is weird with Chillingworth.
36. What biblical stories are portrayed in the decorations of Dimmesdale's room? What themes or issues are suggested by these stories?
- On the Curtains in Dimmesdales room are images from the bible which were about adultery and what happens to the people who commit this sin.