The Scarlet Letter [9/12]
Anon
Genre: | Novel, Serial, Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Hawthorne 1850 |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Status, Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Religion |
On reading Dimmesdale's heart 'more accurately', Hester Prynne senses that Chillingworth, whose 'secret poison' infected 'all the air about him' and who had interfered with the minister's 'physical and spiritual infirmities', had kept the minister's 'conscience in an irritated state' (259). | |
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