Roger Chillingsworth is actually Hester's husband in disguise. When he sends her to America, while he ties up some loose ends in Europe he is captured by native Americans. He finally arrives in Boston, only to discover Hester being displayed on a scaffold with her illegitamate child. He then decideds to go in disguise, using the name Roger Chillingsworth as his alias. He is a very smart man and uses his abilites to find and destroy Hester's mysterious lover. Throughout the book he is set on revenge and the cause of pain, emotionally and physically.
That old man's revenge has been blacker than my ... sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!" (17.21)
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