The woman’s a whore, and there’s an end on ’t.

The line is a blunt, finalizing judgment: it reduces a woman to a single stigmatized identity (“whore”) and then closes off further discussion (“and there’s an end on ’t”). Its force lies less in argument than in rhetorical foreclosure—an assertion meant to settle a dispute by sheer decisiveness. Read critically, it exemplifies how moral condemnation can function as social control, using sexual slur and verbal finality to deny complexity, motive, or mitigating circumstance. If genuinely Johnsonian, it would also reflect the conversational culture of sharp, epigrammatic pronouncements often attributed to him, though the sentiment and diction require careful sourcing before being treated as authentic.