Pity and mercy

I think, were the feelings in which Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter, and though Prynne betrayed her husband, she did so unintentionally; Dimmesdale, the most famous saint in the land, fell in love with a married woman, and bore a daughter; Chillingworth, on the contrary, seemed to be the victim, but he had lost pity and mercy in order to take revenge, and had become repulsive.