Effects Of Public Shame

What is public shaming? Well, public shaming is known as when a person in a society is singled out and criticized publicly for something they did and are often isolated from society.
Public Shame can have massive effects on a person’s life and reputation. This point can be greatly shown in three sources that were examined in class this year. Source A is The Scarlet
Letter , a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this novel, a woman named Hester Prynne is publicly shamed for committing adultery. Source B is a speech made by Monica Lewinski at a
TED Talk entitled, “The Price of Public Shame.” This speech details Monica’s experience of public shame when she had relations with President Clinton. Source C is an article from The New
York Times

Source C, however, is different because it is about a woman who is slandered online for making a comment. What all three have in common, however, is that they all involve a woman being publicly shamed. These sources show many of the effects of public shame. Hence, public shame can have a tremendous effect on the social life, professional life, and the personal life of the individual being shamed.
First off, public shame can have a huge effect on the social life of the individual being shamed. In Source A, The Scarlet Letter , Hester Prynne was publicly shamed for adultery and her social life suffered effects for it. She was pretty much isolated from society and did not interact with many people. In Source B, Monica Lewinsky states that, “...the attention and judgement that I received, not the story, but that I personally received was unprecedented. 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). This quote is about how public shame can affect your

For example, in Source C it can be quoted that Ms. Sacco was, “...fired from her job…” (Bilton). The article gives another example of the professional lives of people being damaged by public shame. “Pax Dickinson, a chief technology officer for Business Insider, was forced to resign this year after tweeting comments that people found sexist” (Bilton). The article also then makes a great point that, “ Yet the people who threatened to rape and murder Ms. Sacco, who attacked her family and friends, aren’t held in contempt or fired from their jobs” (Bilton). To include Source A in this, but to contrast from the two other sources, Hester was not really affected in her professional life, unlike with Source
A and especially in Source C. By explaining Source B and Source C in detail and providing this evidence of these bullied and publicly shamed individuals losing their jobs and their chances to support themselves, it can be concluded that public shame has a tremendous and terrible effect on the professional life of those shamed.
Finally, onto how the personal lives of people who are publicly shamed are affected. To provide a little background, the personal life of someone includes how they feel inside, their