#25
As at the waving of a magician's wand, uprose a grisly phantom,-- uprose a thousand phantoms,--in many shapes, of death, or more awful shame, all flocking roundabout the clergyman, and pointing with their fingers at his breast!
Roger is obviously going insane and I make this statement because Hawthorn takes the time to lay out his mind in this section. When Chillingsworth restates his answer he increases the number of phantoms in order to ensure that his victim is dead. The thing is that he's only daydreaming about the phantoms. He next says that they will appear in many shapes. of death, or more awful shame. Being a minister one of the worst things he can do is perform a major sin that gets him killed and what follows that of course is front page in the daily paper. The remembrance of Arthur would last much longer than his immediate death. Lastly the phantoms are coincidentally pointing at his guilty heart which he clutches constantly. He does so because he feels the guilt of adultry, abandonment of his child, and for lying to god.
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