“Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, at that moment of his ecstasy, he would have had no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to heaven, and won into his kingdom.”
The sin didn’t affect only Hester, Dimmesdale and Pearl. Roger Chillingworth undergoes it too. For all his life, when he was Mister Pryne, he was a good man, “calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man”. Now that he is Roger Chillingworth and all his life is based on the revenge, he is compared to Satan, and his evil makes him worse than the sinners themselves.
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