Humiliation

Cyber bullying is when a victim is being targeted by humiliation, harassment, and or threatened on the internet. Bullying on social media has become far worse as access to the internet has become easier and more common. There are two types of online bullying. "The two types of online bullying are cyber bullying and trolling." (Youth Studies Australia.) Like I said previously, cyber bullying is when a victim is being targeted by humiliation, harassment, and or threatened on the internet.…

Achilles feels shamed and decides to withdraw from the fight completely, denouncing his loyalty to Agamemnon (87). In doing so, Achilles wants to escape the perpetrator of his humiliation. However, he fails to realize that his reasoning his hypocritical. Achilles seems to think of himself as the sole victim of humiliation, when in reality, he had done the same to Agamemnon. When Agamemnon attempts to reconcile with Achilles, even offering to return Briseis, Achilles still remains angry. He still…

Gaining Freedom Through Acceptance in “The Strangers that Came to Town” Charlotte Bronte once wrote in her novel Jane Eyre: “ I am no bird, and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being, with an independent will.” The feeling of a bird no net ensnares or a human being with a respected independent will is freedom. Freedom is never given; it is won with the great sacrifices of many in pursue for it. Literature has always been used as a powerful weapon to fight against bigotry and prejudice in…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne acts as a societal critique of the Puritans. Hawthorne shows them as demonic hypocrites, especially high ranking members of the town. In addition to this, he uses language that recognizes, the sin-committing, Hester Prynne as the protagonist, while Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a pious man, is viewed as weak and afraid of the society that reveres him. The communal condemnation of Hester shows the Puritans as a singular character, rather than a society or…

Dogberry found the chance to reveal the truth after Hero has already been humiliated by Claudio and Don Pedro. The order of events in Much Ado About Nothing was constructed by Shakespeare in a way that serves the plot in an order where Hero’s humiliation is the climax of the play, while Dogberry finding out the truth serves the falling action. The order of plot of Much Ado About Nothing makes the climax of the play effective in drawing out specific reactions—reactions that Shakespeare expects to…

Shortly after Muhammed founded Islam, Muslims began ruling the Arab lands. Jews lived as a minority under a variety of Muslim-ruled governments. Their rights and privileges were significantly less than that of their Muslim counterparts. In fact, Jews were part of the Dhimmi, which was considered to be any non-believer of Islam. A constant in these hierarchical relationships was Muslims in government and Jewish subjugation. Some scholars say that the motivation behind this oppression was…

Anderson, Snow, and Cress give two main sets of strategies that are used to manage the stigma of being homeless. These two sets are in-group strategies and out-group strategies. These strategies gauge the interactions that the homeless’ have with various people. As the name suggests, in-group strategies are strategies that are used within the homeless groups. A few of these strategies include hanging out, drinking, and cheap entertainment. The common thread that these strategies have is that the…

Humiliation is defined as “enforced lowering of a person or group, a process of subjugation that damages or strips away their pride, honor and dignity” (Lindner, 2009, p. 55). They are also meant to save face and reassure the world of its dignity. At the global…

Committing the sin of adultery, both sinners deal with their sins in exceedingly different ways. Dimmesdale who kept in secret, suffers both physically and emotionally, while Hester, who claimed her sin and openly admitted it, suffered public humiliation, but in the end was shown mercy and lived better off than the internally tortured minister. Consequences of sin is seen frequently in this corrupted…

For people that don’t have a clue what domestic violence is. It is a pattern of coercive behavior (which means in a forcing way) and subordinate another in an abusive relationship. These behaviors include physical, sexual, psychological, and economic abuse. Coercion, terrorism, degradation, exploitation, and violence are used to install fear in the victim. Sexual assault and stalking are two main things that victims have to deal with. Sexual assault is any kind of sexual activity with anyone…