In this world, there is around seven billion people, and while all individuals have different lives and obstacles, every person shares one quality in common: mistakes. As a human being, it is inevitable to not constantly make mistakes; in fact, following through with a poor decision is what helps people learn and grow. However, people like Monica Lewinsky or the character Hester Prynne are constantly publically shamed for making a mistake that will later be regretted, especially if it is for a fault of something major. Also, with daily human interaction and internet today, no matter what someone says or does, that one poor decision will forever lurk over the individual’s head, constantly taunting and reminding about the committed sin that is …show more content…
Lewinski states in her heartfelt speech, “Not a day goes by that I’m not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply.” (Lewinski 2:36-248). To begin, Monica Lewinsky is already in enough sorrow from her terrible mistake, but instead has the entire world to comment on what she did. For some people, there are only a select few that will publicly shame the individual, but for Monica Lewinsky, the entire world gets to say whatever they want about her. Since she fell in love with a past President, more people have the opportunity to judge her; Monica even said that she is in just about forty rap songs that mention her mistake. This shaming has left such an everlasting impression that it took such a long time to even face the rest of the world head on. Furthermore, even though both individuals grow to be strong, the emotional impact still scars. For Hester Prynne, she soon develops pride in wearing her sin, but can never get rid of what has been said. The novel states, “She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their …show more content…
Someone’s mistakes can easily be debuted online, making the levels of public shame go beyond its limits. In Source C, “Is the Internet a Mob without Consequence?”, there is an article about an adult who got a massive amount of hate for an inappropriate tweet. In the document, the adult named Ms. Sacco received intense reactions and consequences: “Yet as soon as it was clear that she had made similar comments in the past, the Internet turned into a voracious and vengeful mob. Ms. Sacco was tried and judged guilty in a public square of millions and soon attacked in a way that seemed worse than her original statement. Within hours, people threatened to rape, shoot, kill, and torture her.” (Bilton 9-13). With the negative feedback, the lady realized her tweet was an awful mistake; however, when dealing with the internet, there is no “deleting” mistakes. Also, being shamed to the extent of having millions watch her in a public square and then threaten to do so many wrong actions like killing is just brutality wrong. The responses following the tweet are in fact far more disgusting than the single tweet posted which started the entire breakout. Furthermore, with the rise of social media, Monica Lewinsky also had her fair share in being harassed and humiliated online. Monica shares with the audience, “But the attention and judgement that I received, not the
Shame and guilt are often used interchangeably as they are often perceived to be the same or eerily similar. Yet shame is more associated with feelings of poor personal character and guilt is associated with what a person’s character does. Studies have shown that shame rather than guilt is a significant risk factor for the onset and maintenance of mental health difficulties and it has been further theorized that guilt is actually an adaptive response in which movement from shame to guilt represents a stage of mental health recovery (Dyer, et al., 2017). Though shame over particular events in the moment are not uncommon due to humanities imperfect nature, the problem resides in lack of shame resolution. May (2007) exemplifies this in that the
...ses a threat of humiliation and maltreating from other individuals that can have a detrimental effect on their lives. A person can go from being a normal school student to a laughing stock on a popular social network or even trend from a emotionally stable individual to a deranged, depressed critter who now hides in the shadows of society hoping never to be revealed. The informative thought of the re-occurrence of public shaming throughout history from Bennett allows the reader to question if this is an issue that is perpetual and something that will never go away. Furthermore, the author conveys the idea that publicizing oneself can be a burden; the darkside of Internet fame. Wrapping up her article, Bennett portrays a warning to the reader stating, “Shame...will always be with you”(115). Harassment from Internet fame can alter a person's life-forever.
When one does wrong, the common reaction is to hide it and pretend as if nothing happened. Because of the human conscience it is difficult to completely forget about a wrongdoing. Through our conscience guilt is built up and eventually that guilt shatters enough barriers and in turn causes the doer to admit his/her wrong.
Society veiws her as a three-dimensional person. Eventually, these charitable deeds succeed at redefining her status as the letter takes on a dual meaning when the townspeople note “that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength” (Hawthorne 141). Hester does not allow her public shaming to control all aspects of her life and consciously works to reformulate how she is viewed, something Monica Lewinsky did not do until after she had been silenced for over a decade. When the story first broke, the shameful component of Lewinsky’s life was quickly made “public without consent, public without context, and public without compassion” (Lewinsky 8:31). The world was invited to view the scandal and when the entire world is involved, it is exponentially more
Hillary Clinton is an important character in the impeachment process and the sex scandal in general. As Bill Clinton’s wife, she is the most personally involved with the President, as well as the most personally involved in the subject matter involved with the impeachment. Since Bill Clinton’s wrong-doings stem from sexual misconduct, as his wife, Hillary Clinton has an extremely great involvement. Due to her great involvement in this personal matter, the public audience seems to associate their thoughts with her own (34% of the public thought that the scandal was a personal matter as long as Hillary Clinton was fine with it [U.S. News]). Meaning, the public feels that if Bill Clinton’s sexual affairs are accepted by Hillary, then they should be accepted by the country as well. It is important to look at how Clinton gets her points, what her motives are in doing so, and where her motives stem from because she is so influential regarding the President’s image. It is also important to look at the sexual misconduct between the President and Ms Lewinsky, as well as Hillary’s decision to support her husband, from the First Lady’s situation since women and their concerns are often forgotten when analyzing political discourse.
Mistakes happen every day in the world we live in. People make mistakes due to poor decisions and bad judgement. Some who commit these faults are punish publicly, while some may get away without anyone knowing. Yet, the one who gets away can experience the same amount of pain as the one who is publicly punish. So how come does this happen to the one who gets away? Well, this happens because of one’s private guilt, which he or she cannot escape from. The longer one holds onto the guilt, the more painful it can be to the person. It can be described as a ticking bomb within a person. Private guilt is as bad as public guilt because it is torture to oneself, can bring emotional destruction to the people involved in the affair, and can have a major
Lewinsky’s talk about the progression of the internet's impact by the means of the extent of humiliation and the boundaries going from an isolated few to the whole world was extraordinary. Lewinsky’s personal account of her experience with public humiliation made the talk stronger by having someone personal to being humiliated on the internet talk about the process of coping with the shame. Lewinsky’s purpose in the speech at the beginning focuses mainly about her internet humiliation but toward the end Lewinsky’s experience was only a small part of a bigger purpose of the speech.The intention of the talk was to help Lewinsky come to terms with the mistake that was made in her past and to use her experience to inform the audience about the
McAlpine v Bercow signifies the importance of vigilance when making an opinion public in the digital communication sphere. This case certainly contributes to the regulation of modern-day English media and defamation law on a broader scale. The reasoning delivered by Tugendhat J explain that the former defamation principles that claimants relied on in traditional media environments, are now readily translated into the digital social media world. A ‘tweet’ seven words long has been proven to result in defaming the reputation of those mistakenly accused. Those that choose to use Twitter, or any other seemingly casual format, must be aware that being defamatory on a social media site can be just as damaging as that precipitated in a newspaper, speech or broadcast.
Hester maintained her dignity and showed immense inner strength when being shamed. Hester’s judgemental community demands that she stand on a scaffold and wear an “A” to shame her and mark her as an adulteress. When Hester is being publicly shamed, although she admits to feeling “as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon” (Hawthorne, 1994, p. 84Scarlet Letter),
In the TED talk, The Price of Shame by Monica Lewinsky, “At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, i learned the devastating consequences” (Lewinsky 2:35). In this quote, Monica is being shamed professionally because she implies that she lost her job because of the mistake she made. Similarly in The New York Times article, Is The Internet a Mob Without Consequences?,” She (Justine Sacco) deleted her entire social footprint online, including her Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and was fired from her job, effective 12 hours earlier” (Bilton 6). This is another case in which the person receiving the hate lost their job and it is mostly from the fact that companies don't want to hold onto these people who are receiving all of this shame because it leaves a bad mark on their company. On top of that, when these people who are receiving the hate like Justice and Monica want to get new jobs, they will be more cautious with hiring them because of their past mistakes. As a result, professional shaming can affect one's life
Entering into the realm of politics, you’ll find yourself in a mist of hope, deceit, encouragement, and strategic plots set forth by nominees, all with the objective to lock in your vote. Such tactics do not just entail friendly and fair competition; why we witness name of an opponent being tarnished, solely as a stepping stool for the other’s progression. In the wake of the recent, on-going 2016 Presidential Election, we will highlight the use of some informal fallacies delivered in the conventional speeches delivered by America’s two candidates: Hillary Clinton in representation for the democrats and Republican Donald Trump.
Possible intro P for subtopic 1: Now there is a lot of government and politics, way more than just Donald Trump and him being so great or so evil. I don’t want to talk about this matter because I feel it is not important to tell others. Saying that he’s good or bad would make this paragraph a persuasive one instead of an informative. Also, it just doesn’t matter, you won’t find me even mentioning the President’s name after this paragraph. So instead I’ll be talking about the president in general, like his or her jobs as president, and their rights and responsibilities. I should probably put a pun in here, eh… Quick! If Con is the opposite of pro, than does that mean Congress is the opposite of Progress? Oh, that wasn't very
A student at the University of California, Los Angeles resigned from her college after receiving death threats and harassment. This was a result of her posting a “racist video, a tyrade against the Asian population at her school” (Source E). This is another reason why social media should be used against students. This behavior is not acceptable. But, later on the student apologized saying, “it was an attempt to produce a humorous video” (Source E). People should also be given freedom to speak their mind, which should not be held against their
Mistakes are actually a very influential part of a person’s upbringing in life. Mistakes shape a person’s character to make them who they are today. A mistake can teach someone many different life lessons that will better them as a person and make their lives more enjoyable. A person will commit a mistake usually when he or she is distracted. Distraction is the number one cause of mistakes in our world today. Many people are afraid of making mistakes, so they play it safe in life and don’t strive to achieve everything they are capable of achieving. This is a very bad thing. People should not be afraid of the potential mistakes there are to be made. Instead, they should focus more on the great lengths they could go in life by pursuing their goals. Mistakes will happen on life’s journeys,
Besides, there is also an impressive mini research done by a journalist, that he separately post similar content on twitter disguising as celebrities of a male and a female. Even though the content is nearly identical, he found that the spoof twitter account received more negative and abusive comments when the poster was portrayed as a female. Therefore, the ubiquity of women using social media does not mirror the representation of women in it, and the response they get plays a significant role towards relative female silence in social media. To emphasize the gender inequality issue on social media,‘flaming’ (being criticized by highly abusive language eg slut-shaming) is only one of the myriads of harassment females usually face in the cyberspace. Other examples include culturally justified violence, which there are jokes promoting rape, and intimate partner violence, which they are threatened to have their naked photos’ videos unveiled to the public, like Jennifer Lawrence and Gillian Chung, a former Hongkong singer. We can see how genders hierarchy still exists and oppresses females in modern days.Though the world is becoming more civilized and people are being more open-minded, we can see that there are still some traditional values embedded in today’s society, like genders are still heavily