#24
Not a spectator only, but a chief actor in the poor minister's interior world. He could play upon him as he chose. Would he arouse him with a throb of agony? The victim was for ever on the rack;
A definition for rack as a verb was to cause extreme mental or physical pain. I thought this might be the correct definition for this use of rack since Dimmesdale is in both physical pain from his symptoms of being sick and severe mental pain from Chillingsworth. There is also a weird similarity here between Hamlet and Roger in the sense that both picture themselves as actors. Methinks this is a sign of insanity if you see yourself as an actor.
Chillingsworth also sounds a little like a man with an expertise of torture just about to enter the holding room with his toolbox of prying tools.
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