Read this excerpt from chapter 2 of the scarlet letter using comprehension strategies. “goodwives,” said a hard-featured dame of fifty, “i’ll tell ye a piece of my mind. it would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this hester prynne. what think ye, gossips? if the hussy stood up for judgment before us five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates have awarded? ” what is the meaning of this excerpt?

In this excerpt, one of the women who is at the market place, in front of the jail, waiting anxiously to be a witness of the punishment that Hester Prynne is about to receive, voices that, if she could have her way, she would be glad to be the one in charge of condemning Hester Prynne, much more severely and implacably, it can be inferred (notice that she says "would she come off with such a sentence..."?, as if suggesting that the punishment had not been severe enough).    

A. The speaker believes that she and her peers ought to be in charge of assigning sentences in cases like Hester’s.

Explanation:

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pandora was the poor unfortunate soul that was tricked into letting all of the evil of the world out of the pithos (any percy jackson fans out / box.