Dimmesdale or Chillingworth?

    There is no doubt to saying that both Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are having emotional traumas in their life during those critical years. The one that i sympathize with would have to be, of course, Mr. Dimmesdale, because of his one mistake he had to suffer seven years of torture by Mr Chillingworth who found out he was the man who had an affair with her wife. Hester Prynne did commit adultery with Mr. Dimmesdale, but Mr. Chillingworth moved on, while Dimmesdale had to suffer and slowly die from his guilt. Chillingworth had also sinned,with revenge and  by making Hester lie to Dimmesdale and make him get tortured for seven years. "Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent"(Hawthorne 159). This quote talks about Hester's guilt in keeping Chillingworth's identity a secret, which gave rise to the torture and brutal suffering that Dimmesdale was facing because of it. Dimmesdale constantly got hurt, inside and out, because of sins and guilt.