The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several dynamic characters to develop the plot of the novel. A dynamic character is a character that changes or evolves through the course of a story. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth were all dynamic characters. The character that changed the most through the course of the story, though, was Roger Chillingworth. In chapter three we learned that Hester’s husband was “a learned man of English …showed first 75 words of 374 total…

…showed last 75 words of 374 total…the story, Chillingworth was the embodiment of evil itself. His leech-like dependency on evil and torture is illustrated by the fact that he died shortly after Dimmesdale’s death. Throughout the course of the story, Chillingworth went from a respected scholar to a devilish man, obsessed with torture. Although there were several other characters that changed drastically through the course of the novel, no character went from one pole to the other as Chillingworth did.