"But what distinguished the physician's ecstasy from Satan's was the trait of wonder in it!" (Page 121)
Did Satan ever wonder? Isn't it like the devil never wonders, he knows things? If yes, why does Chillingworth wonder? Isn't he Satan? Maybe he is just some helper, or his representative on earth.
Chillingworth's changes over the course of the novel. He wonders here, but at the end of the novel, when Hester and Dimmesdale are going to run away, there is no wonder. He knows. Has he grown into a demon? Here he is still human, or at least retains some humanity.
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