(Spoilers) In the Scarlet Letter if DImmesdale did not die on the scaffold would Chillingworth have killed him? He speaks of revenge.?
Chllingworth's revenge did not involve killing Dimmesdale. He preyed on Dimmesdale's guilty conscience and drove him to do what he did, out of guilt. What Chillingtonworth did was actually much crueler than just killing Dimmesdale outright.
