Do you think The Scarlet Letteraccomplished what the magistrates intended? The way hesters life ends do you think the scarlet letter accomplished what...

I think it
depends on what you think it was intended to do.  If it was intended to shame her, to make her
an "example" of what happens to those who stray from "the way," then it
succeeded.

However, if it were intended to makea total outcast from the
community, then it did not accomplish what they intended.  Despite before isolated from the
community, being the one the preachers use as example of the consequences of sin, Hester becomes
the seamstress to the community and does a great deal of good for the downtrodden in the
community, even though they often scorn her after accepting the good...