Impotence is defined as " lacking bodily strength" or "unable to do something." Chillingworth is the figure of an impotent man because he's an older man who sends his younger, beautiful wife away by herself for years and is not physically in her life to the point where they assume he is killed by the "savage" Native Americans.
Johnson makes Chillingworth look sympathetic and caring for Hester as he confesses that he is why this has happened to Hester. He feels if he wasn't absent in her life he would've atleast saved her from the humilation knowing fully well that he may not have fathered a child for himself at his age.
Omnipotence is defined as having a dfine power, like God. Johnson portrays Chillingworth as omnipotent because he taking the herbs and roots as a form of his strength and knowledge. Although Chillingworth was in "captivation" he was taking in stories and beliefs of the Native American remedies.
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