Shunning has been a way to ruin people and publicly humiliate them for a long time. In 2017 a person can be shunned for murder, rape, drug abuse, and cheating on their partner. One thing that makes scandals more widespread in this day and age is the internet; it allows scandals to spread to a global level. People who are shunned today are recognized worldwide, and they can’t go anywhere to escape their scandal. But in The Scarlet Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, set in the 1600s. During the puritan reign of America, shunning and scandal were based on religious ideas, such as: committing adultery, religious sinning, breaking puritan norms, owning extravagant things, and following another religion that was not Christianity.
Monica Lewinsky …show more content…
I lost almost everything, and I almost lost my life.” With this statement, she shows how the consequences of her actions affected her. In a Vanity Fair article, “Shame and Survival,” she speaks to how hard it was for her to get jobs, years after the news broke, and how no one wanted her to work for them because of how it would make their company look. She also says at times the humiliation was so terrible she wanted to kill herself. In her Ted talk she says, “reliving a time when [my mother] sat by my bed every night, reliving a time when she made me shower with the bathroom door open, and reliving a time when both of my parents feared that I would be humiliated to death, literally,” suggesting that there had been times that Lewinsky felt like she would go far as to take her life because the humiliation was so terrible.
Lewinsky and Hester Prynne, the main character of The Scarlet Letter, are similar in many different ways. Both women committed adultery to people whom they fell in love with, but they knew it was wrong to have a relationship. Lewinsky says, “At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences,” showing that the
Monica Lewinsky …show more content…
I lost almost everything, and I almost lost my life.” With this statement, she shows how the consequences of her actions affected her. In a Vanity Fair article, “Shame and Survival,” she speaks to how hard it was for her to get jobs, years after the news broke, and how no one wanted her to work for them because of how it would make their company look. She also says at times the humiliation was so terrible she wanted to kill herself. In her Ted talk she says, “reliving a time when [my mother] sat by my bed every night, reliving a time when she made me shower with the bathroom door open, and reliving a time when both of my parents feared that I would be humiliated to death, literally,” suggesting that there had been times that Lewinsky felt like she would go far as to take her life because the humiliation was so terrible.
Lewinsky and Hester Prynne, the main character of The Scarlet Letter, are similar in many different ways. Both women committed adultery to people whom they fell in love with, but they knew it was wrong to have a relationship. Lewinsky says, “At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences,” showing that the