Roger ChillingworthThe Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about Hester Prynne, who committed adultery in Puritan Boston. She was humiliated and sent to the scaffold, where she was publicly humiliated and sent back to prison. After her release, she attempted to live out the rest of her life on the outskirts of the city. The only companion she had was her daughter, Pearl, who is living proof of her crime. Hester and Pearl live their lives together, trying to overcome the shame Hester brought upon them. The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the local minister and Hester's adulterous companion. He tries to hide from his image, because of his horrible sin. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, was a businessman in England and sent Hester to America before him so that he could put his affairs in order. Throughout the story, the four main characters show many examples of their duality, namely the concept that man (woman) possesses two antagonistic forces: good and evil, which are in constant opposition l 'one with the other. Roger Chillingworth is the best representation of duality. His character changes from an honest and hardworking husband to a mean and twisted old man. Roger Chillingworth's duality first appears during "his arrival on the market" (Hawthorne 53). His wife, Hester Prynne, is on the scaffold and is publicly humiliated in front of the whole town. As he looked at her, "a horror twisted across his features, like a snake sliding quickly over them and pausing a little, with all its twisted intervolutions for all to see" (54). He notices the “A” on her chest and asks a local resident why the woman is on the scaffold. The man explains to her that she was arrested for adultery against her husband who “had sent his wife before him, remaining himself to take care of certain necessary matters” (54). The town person makes Chillingworth seem like a good, hardworking man. That he sent his wife here out of the goodness of his heart and she betrayed him. Hawthorne presents Chillingworth as the villain; saying he looked like a snake. Not a page later, the city manager talks about how he took care of business in Europe and his wife. Later, Chillingworth goes to the prison to visit Hester, at the jailer's request. "he saw fit to introduce a physician. He described him as a man in all Christian fashions of physical science, and equally familiar with all that savages could teach..