CHAPTER 10

PLOT SYNOPSIS

• The chapter begins with a long, drawn-out description of Chillingworth and his investigation of Dimmesdale.
• They see Pearl and Hester in the graveyard.
• Chillingworth examines Dimmesdale while he sleeps.

CHILLINGWORTH HAS CHANGED

• It's clear his intentions are not good.
• He's constantly torturing Dimmesdale
• Everyone sees his intentions

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• He has became a instrument of evil against Dimmesdale
• Dimmesdale is unaware that his greatest enemy is now his supposed greatest ally.

“But what distinguished the physician's ecstasy from Satan's was the trait of wonder in it!”
(Page 282, chapter 10, landscape)

What's Wrong With Dimmesdale?

• Whatever his secret is, it is definitely affecting his health negatively
• Chillingworth's presence is not helping

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• He's hiding something
• He defends the ne'er dowells of the community

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• "Speak frankly, I pray you, be it for life or death."(chapter 10, page 184)
• "It must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain... than to cover it up in his heart."(chapter 10, page 274)

OVERVIEW

• Dimmesdale's guilt
• Chillingworth's investigation

“He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption. Alas, for his own soul, if these were what he sought!”
(Page 262, chapter 10, Landscape)

I'm just gonna straight up tell ya, we done.