Scarlet Letter Public Shaming

In The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the use of public shaming has an everlasting effect on a woman named Hester Prynne after she commits adultery within her Puritan society. She was sentenced to stand on a platform in front of her entire community, and she must wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life. Public humiliation is the dishonoring showcase of a person for everyone in a community to see. To this day, some judges still use public humiliation to punish people for their wrong doings; however, public humiliation should not be used by the government as a punishment for a crime. Public shaming can have an unintended impact on future employment. Imagine eating at restaurant and noticing a guy who was publicly shamed for bullying little kids. Not many people would want that waiter to serve them, and they especially wouldn't want that man to serve their kids. That is why most jobs refuse to hire a person with a criminal background. Saying that, almost all jobs refuse to hire a person who has a criminal background pictures of himself being publicly shamed on the internet. While sitting in jail can make a criminal suffer mentally, it doesn’t cause him to have to worry about another person, who might be famous on social media, to take pictures of him being publicly shamed and post it on the internet for the world to witness. Millions and millions of people visit social media daily, that is why “it's impossible to predict how many photos and
Public shaming would be a good crime if it only affect the criminals; however, many innocent citizens are affected everyday by it making it a cruel punishment. Although, the shaming of Hester Prynne led to her learning a life lesson, it doesn't always produce that same effect against other people which means it’s not accurate and should be