The Scarlet Letter - Is
“The scarlet letter had not done its office” (Hawthorne 114). No quote in The Scarlet Letter has such a distinct purpose and reasoning behind it as this quote does. In order to better understand its significance one can look at a dictionary to help define the term that may cause some confusion, office. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary defines office as that which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings. When applying this definition to the context of the sentence, you obtain a much easier to understand quote of “The scarlet letter had not done its intended purpose.” As strong a statement as that already is, one realizes it means that much more when taking into consideration the length and development of many of Hawthorne’s sentences and paragraphs. There has to be a more important reason for why that sentence was used as its own separate paragraph. The sentences purpose is to show the change in the “A,” which in itself was a dynamic character, and the importance of the changes seen in Hester Prynne. Originally the scarlet “A” was placed
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