chapter 24
"Some affirmed that the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, had begun a course of penance, which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out, by inflicting a hideous torture on himself. Others contended that the stigma had not been produced until a long time subsequent, when old Roger Chillingworth, being a potent necromancer, had caused it to appear, through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs."
we can see here two different views of evil: the human law, for which Hester was guilty, and the natural law, where R.C. was the meanest and the cause of the pain. after D.'s death, appearently C. loses his good fama of being a good doctor, but instead he is considered a NECROMANCER and related to dark magic.
I like this two different views of evil: human law and natural law. Deep ideas here. And the change Chillingworth transforming from a doctor, one who heals, to a necromancer, one who destroys.
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