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【标题】论《红字》中齐林沃斯的性格分析 【作者】罗 媛 【关键词】红字；齐林沃斯；爱；家庭 【指导老师】张亚军 曾琳玲 【专业】英语 【正文】I. Introduction:Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, Hawthornes childhood left him overly shy and bookish, which molded his life as a writer.The Scarlet letter is one of Hawthorne’s works, the book uses the Puritanism as background, and the story in the book happened in 17th century in Boston, it is focused on the red letter and the whole life of Hester’s. But there is anther important man; he is Hester’s husband, a so called devil in the book- Roger Chillingworth.Hawthorne lost his father in his childhood and his uncle undertook the whole family. It can be said that his uncle is his father. And the fathers in The Scarlet Letter have two identities which are contradictory?.Chillingworth is one of the fathers. Chillingworth was earnest to reunite with his wife, but he was still scared to confront with the insult. So, the origin of the character of Chillingworth is from Hawthorne’ real life.???Roger Chillingworth is an old and lonely scholar in England dehumanized by a life of abstruse studying. He makes the mistake of marrying a young wife. He sends his wife to America, to the Puritan colony of Massachusetts, with instructions to live quietly until he arrives. Due to?“grievous mishaps by sea and land,”1 and over a years captivity by Indians, his intended arrival was delayed. He finally arrives to discover his wife, Hester Prynne, being publicly exposed as an adulteress. Not wanting to be associated with her sin, he announces himself as a physician, and takes the new name Roger Chillingworth to replace his real name Roger Prynne.Like all of Hawthorne’s main characters, he is complex and difficult to see through. The words?“chilling”2 and?“worth”3 compose the name Chillingworth. Chilling comes from the word?“chilly”, which means this man is a cold and merciless. He is calm in temperament.But in most comments about The Scarlet Letter, Chillingworth is