“You're Ugly”, “You look weird” these are successions of public shaming that often occurring on social media every day. Public shame is known for humiliating and dishonoring people, Are there any benefits? Or should public shaming became a thing of the past? In The Scarlet Letter (Source A), Hester Prynne is known for being a sinner and is shamed because of it. In The Price of Shame (Source B), Monica Lewinski has been publicly shamed for having unnormal feelings for her boss, which happens to be the president of the United States. Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence? (Source C), the article explains how people on the internet can say whatever they want and not have any consequences. Public Shame impacts an individual in a negative way
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hester accepts her shame, “Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life (Hawthorne 76). Henceforth, Hester accepted the shame that she received in a pubic place, on the scaffold in the middle of town with the entire town watching. In the Ted Talk, The Price of Shame, Monica Lewinsky was shamed by the quote,”I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and of course, that woman. I was seen by many but actually known by few” (Lewinsky 4:52). In a case that Monica would be seen in public, people would have those words like “tramp” would come to mind. It is important that Monica said,”I was seen by many but actually known by few,”because this means that people would just brand her with those alarming words and have preconceived ideas about her without her having a chance to prove herself. In result, someone who is publicly shamed could have other people judge them for the rest of their …show more content…
Therefore, an individual should care about public humiliation because it can have a large effect on a person’s future. A single case of public humiliation could have many aftershocks. One single case of public humiliation can lead to a lifetime of
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester accepts her shame, “Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life (Hawthorne 76). Henceforth, Hester accepted the shame that she received in a pubic place, on the scaffold in the middle of town with the entire town watching. In the Ted Talk, The Price of Shame, Monica Lewinsky was shamed by the quote,”I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and of course, that woman. I was seen by many but actually known by few” (Lewinsky 4:52). In a case that Monica would be seen in public, people would have those words like “tramp” would come to mind. It is important that Monica said,”I was seen by many but actually known by few,”because this means that people would just brand her with those alarming words and have preconceived ideas about her without her having a chance to prove herself. In result, someone who is publicly shamed could have other people judge them for the rest of their …show more content…
Therefore, an individual should care about public humiliation because it can have a large effect on a person’s future. A single case of public humiliation could have many aftershocks. One single case of public humiliation can lead to a lifetime of