https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn Chapter 23 en-us 2020-12-12 18:49:48 UTC 2024-10-14 02:43:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022131048 His guilt is one that he becomes increasingly hypervigilant to conceal. The burden is so internalized that it continues to impact his life because it is all he can think about. This causes a slightly altered view on the world ]]> 2020-12-15 22:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022131048 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022276722 For Chillingworth it is not just a matter of public judgment but that of his own moral deviation from this sin. This leads him to create ways of managing his guilt that have terrible repercussions.]]> 2020-12-15 23:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022276722 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022712612 We see Chillingworth fall back on self harm time and time again because he cant bring himself to deal with the problem. The weight of it bogs him down so it creates a sense of releife that he relies on. It becomes part of his normal to lift his emotions for a short time. He never manages to find constructive ways to cope leading to his demise as harmful habits form.]]> 2020-12-16 03:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022712612 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022721854 Chillingworth develops a type of chronic shame capable of reshaping his personality as it seems the man Hester fell in love with and the one on the scaffold are polar opposites. This guilt digs its way into the crevices of his being and as we have seen changed him into a weaker character.]]> 2020-12-16 03:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022721854 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022775026 The chronic guilt he carry leaves him incredible vulnerable, eventually leading him to this husk of a man on the scaffolding. We can see the guilt physically effecting him in the repeated motion of holding his hand over his heart.]]> 2020-12-16 04:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022775026 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022783497 Chillingworth is happy to seemingly destroy his life for any sense of false security weather through harming himself or acute avoidance of the only person capable of understanding him. Instead he creates a shallow scarlet letter of his own which inevitable causes him to collapse.]]> 2020-12-16 04:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1022783497 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1024186699 The guilt that piles on blinds him to his own hypocrisy that when he says he loves Hester and pearls but will not associate with them in public. He can  fully connect that this avoidance is directly in effect of the building fear and emotions he is experience but is too busy avoiding the prospect that he does not consider the toll it takes on Hester and her daughter. ]]> 2020-12-16 14:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1024186699 https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1024425565 At the moment of his death there are two identifiable causes Dimmesdale's torment and Chillingworth guilt. One alone could not have caused the same result. His neglect and avoidance caused him to seek empty and harmful coping mechanisms that in turn theft him vulnerable to Dimmesdale. It is unsure if Chillingworth would have still died at the scaffolding id Dimmesdale had left him alone but it is undeniable the impact of his poisonous guilt.]]> 2020-12-16 15:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/skaggs_anna27/kvha29zplr7k7jn/wish/1024425565