One day while Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are in the study, they hear the voices of Pearl and Hester coming from outside. Chillingworth asks Dimmesdale if Hester is better off hiding her sin than having confessed it. Dimmesdale replies that she is better off confessing it, but is obviously akward with the question. Chillingworth begins to tell the Minister that he can not fully heal if he doesn't know his problems. Angered, Dimmesdale rushed out of the room. This raises questions to why he was angered and what the Minister is hiding. It really shows the determination Chillingworth has to figure out Dimmesdale.
"No!—not to thee!—not to an earthly physician!” cried Mr. Dimmesdale, passionately, and turning his eyes, full and bright, and with a kind of fierceness, on old Roger Chillingworth. “Not to thee! But, if it be the soul’s disease, then do I commit myself to the one Physician of the soul! He, if it stand with his good pleasure, can cure; or he can kill! Let him do with me as, in his justice and wisdom, he shall see good. But who art thou, that meddlest in this matter?—that dares thrust himself between the sufferer and his God?”-Hawthorne
This is basically Dimmesdale telling Chillingworth to get out of his business. He conffesses he's a sinner, and the only person that should be in his business is God.
"No!—not to thee!—not to an earthly physician!” cried Mr. Dimmesdale, passionately, and turning his eyes, full and bright, and with a kind of fierceness, on old Roger Chillingworth. “Not to thee! But, if it be the soul’s disease, then do I commit myself to the one Physician of the soul! He, if it stand with his good pleasure, can cure; or he can kill! Let him do with me as, in his justice and wisdom, he shall see good. But who art thou, that meddlest in this matter?—that dares thrust himself between the sufferer and his God?”-Hawthorne
This is basically Dimmesdale telling Chillingworth to get out of his business. He conffesses he's a sinner, and the only person that should be in his business is God.
RSS Feed