“Did the sun, which shone so brightly everywhere else, really fall upon him? Or was there, as it rather seemed, a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity whichever way he turned himself? And whither was he now going?”
The light, symbol of God and of the heaven, so the well, can’t bright over Chillingworth. He is always in the dark because he is wicked. The evil leads his mind and like a shadow darkens his soul.
Theme: Dark vs. Light
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