![]() ![]() The Scarlet Letter remains a deeply romantic, transcendental novel. Chillingworth displays a constant intuitive ability to create evil and manipulate the people about him. Further, it appears that Chillingworth is aware, at the end of the novel, of Hester's plans to leave on a ship with Dimmesdale, and directly moves to counteract the plans of the two lovers. Roger Chillingworth is another character who displays intuitive knowledge, as when he comes to realize that Reverend Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms, with a half pleased, half plaintive murmur” (Hawthorn 67). She is also aware of her father, Reverend Dimmesdale, when, for example, as Dimmesdale is urging Hester to confess her lover's name, the child “directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr. Pearl, the child of the woods and of freedom, has the ability to use intuition in order to judge who is good and who is bad. ![]() ![]() The Scarlet Letter, in keeping with transcendentalism, endorses intuition as a form of reason. ![]()
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