--What is their journey? What challenge are they facing? (Text evidence)

Chillingworth’s journey has revolved around his constant need for revenge. Although he has helped many townspeople with his career as a doctor, his evil intentions are growing. Chillingworth faces the challenge of plotting revenge against Dimmesdale. Chillingworth’s journey is described when Hawthorne writes, ¨The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it. It was not, indeed, precisely that which he had laid out for himself to tread. Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy¨ (Hawthorne 169). Chillingworth’s journey is created based on his hatred of Dimmesdale and his need to seek revenge. Chillingworth’s journey towards evil is also represented through his face becoming more gruesome when Hawthorne writes, “According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke”(116). Chillingworth’s appearance hints that his intentions are becoming more evil and this evil is shown on his face.

--What is their destination? What destination do they see for themselves?

Chillingsworth’s destination is revenge. He wants to get revenge on Dimmesdale for the sin that he is hiding. Dimmesdale does not know who Chillingworth truly is yet. Therefore, Chillingworth is taking advantage of the ¨friendship¨ between him and Dimmesdale to find out information. He continuously invades Dimmesdale's privacy to discover his secrets. 

-Three words you would use to describe their journey.

Corruption

Vengeance

Sly

--What do you predict will be their destination? Is it ideal for them?

I predict their destination will end up in Dimmesdale’s death and Chillingsworth’s gradual becoming more evil. It is not ideal for either of them because one would end up dead and the other would end up going completely evil. 

--Do you think their journey is honorable? Do you think they are relatable?

Chillingworth's journey is not honorable because he is hiding his true identity and is manipulative. 

To demonstrate, “With these remorseful feelings, he lost no time in making the amplest apologies, and besought his friend still to continue the care, which, if not successful in restoring him to health, had, in all probability, been the means of prolonging his feeble existence to that hour”(Hawthorne 125). Just as Dimmesdale was beginning to realize Chillingworth’s bad intentions, he was manipulated into thinking that he had made the mistake. Some people in the town have grown skeptical of Chillingworth. He manipulates Dimmesdale and the townspeople, by not sharing his history with Hester. His true motivations are yet to be revealed. Although Chillingworth's actions are very dramatic, readers might be able to relate to his yearn of revenge. It is relatable to want revenge for something or someone that they have lost.  

--What is their journey? What challenge are they facing? (Text evidence)

Hester’s journey after prison life was foreshadowed to be a struggle after a struggle. Hawthorne explains, “To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne”. This was Hester looking towards the dark future, knowing that her journey would simply be her trying to protect herself and Pearl to belong in society. Also, Hester is well aware that her sin will be remembered by the townspeople and will never fade away. In the text, “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman,—at her, who had once been innocent,—as the figure, the body, the reality of sin. And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument”. Hester and Pearl, the product of Hester’s sin, will be forever treated as outcasts due to the certain act of adultery. Hester has been facing the challenge of living in a society that rejects both her and her daughter, and her journey withholds no solutions to her circumstances.

--What is their destination? What destination do they see for themselves?

Hester’s ideal destination is for her and Pearl to have a safe place within her community. She sees a world where she and her daughter won’t be forever shamed for the scarlet letter where she can actually lead a normal and safe life once again. She also wishes to keep her lover a secret and to carry the burden alone for the rest of her life. She hopes that her lover isn’t discovered because she doesn’t wish that pain and shame on him as well. 

-Three words you would use to describe their journey.

--What do you predict will be their destination? Is it ideal for them?

We believe that Hester's destination will never be reaching her goal of public acceptance and the father eventually being discovered, while continuously being shamed by the town. The scarlet letter will forever haunt her and will never be forgotten. It is not her ideal situation, she would rather be accepted, safe and be able to live a normal life with Pearl. 

--Do you think their journey is honorable? Do you think they are relatable?

We think that Hester’s journey is not honorable or relatable because the outcome of what had happened was the result of her actions. Her decisions are what lead to her and Pearl being publicly shamed for the rest of their lives. It is not something that happens often or something you would be proud of. 

Scholarly, cowardly, fraudulent.

--What is their journey? What challenges are they facing? (Text evidence)

Dimmesdale is undergoing a spiritual journey of accepting his fate. Dimmesdale knows that in order to do right by not only himself but his beliefs, Hester, and Pearl, he must publicly out himself as an adulterer. He knows that it will ruin him and his reputation making him a fraud to all who glorify him, yet they might praise him even more for this, if possible. He thinks that he will be ruined when he tells people of his wrongdoings, yet he knows he must do it as it is for the best. Dimmesdale is procrastinating what he must do so he can soak up any bit of praise he has left. The people of the town are known to support him unconditionally, so there is a chance that hey will support him even more for this. For example, when he talked about how he is not who he says he is in the eulogy, the people praise him even more: “More than once, Mr. Dimmesdale had gone into the pulpit, with a purpose never to come down its steps, until he should have spoken words like the above. More than once, he had cleared his throat and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when sent forth again, would come burdened with the black secret of his soul. More than once—nay, more than a hundred times—he had actually spoken! Spoken! But how? He had told his hearers that he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity; and that the only wonder was, that they did not see his wretched body shriveled up before their eyes, by the burning wrath of the Almighty! Could there be plainer speech than this? ”The people of the town love him unconditionally as they seem to love him for his faults. The townspeople connect with his imperfections and feel he is better the more faults he has. But, how bad do his actions have to be for them to begin to dislike him?

--What is their destination? What destination do they see for themselves?

Dimmesdale’s destination for his journey in this story is getting the townspeople to truly understand his sins and his inevitable fate of being rejected by his Puritan society.

-Three words you would use to describe their journey.

Consequential, inevitable, destructive.

--What do you predict will be their destination? Is it ideal for them?

We predicted that his destination would be his fate, which entails rejection and public humiliation by the townspeople. He would receive the same treatment that Hester has received for years. 

--Do you think their journey is honorable? Do you think they are relatable?

No, because although he confessed his sins by holding hands with Hester and Pearl, he was still fraudulent throughout his admittance of his crime. He tried to confess earlier but only through clues. However, it is relatable, because no one wants to be publicly shamed for the crime of adultery, which is how Dimmesdale felt. Dimmesdale is still a good person for stepping up as Hester’s lover and Pearl’s father, but he pretended to be wiser than the rest of the town when he was truly a criminal.