Public Shame In The Scarlet Letter By Hester Prinn

Firstly, public shame impacts emotional well-being. When being publicly shamed a person is usually emotionally unstable. This means that the person(s) regrets what they have done and affects them mentally. In the Scarlet Letter Hester Prinn personally dealt with public shame, and was definitely mentally affected by public shame. She mentally is unfit because she imagines things and tries to erase the image of herself to the public. In the book, she looked into pearl's eyes and saw a dark figure resembling satin. She is obviously seeing a dark figure but she is trying to comprehend what she had done. She is imagining non-real figures and mixing her imagination with reality. Monica Lewinski was publically shamed with her relationships with the