The Cost Of Error In The Scarlet Letter By Bill Clinton

The Cost of Error

On January 20th 1993, Bill Clinton was elected as the forty-second president of the United States. Clinton was set to serve four years of presidency until the 1996 presidential election, where Clinton once again came across victorious over other candidates and was re-elected to serve another four years. However, Clinton’s respect as president was Hindered due to one person in particular who managed to not only have him impeached, but ruin his reputation among the world; his 22 year old intern formally known as Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky was fresh out of college when she was hired to work alongside Bill Clinton at the white house and as the two spent an innumerable amount of time together, feelings quickly started to rise for

These women were blacklisted by society with both of their reputations being smothered, and although their actions have caused an external amount of agony to those around them their mistakes are forgivable and should not

After having a sexual relationship with a man that she was not married to, Pyrnne was sentenced to spending 3 hours on the Scaffold while being publicly humiliated by the crowd that came to witness the suffering that she endured. This public shaming brought pure joy to the people who witnessed the punishment. For example, “the scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always in-vest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow- creature, before society shall grow corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it”(Hawthorne 48). The crowd in which Pyrnne is being humiliated in front of is filled with excitement by her embarrassment. The embarrassment that Hester encounters during her time on the Scaffold represents how people gain a sense of power and superiority over someone else's misery. In Lewinsky´s case, her private affair caused her to receive extreme harassment. Lewinsky stated, ¨Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously¨ (the price of shame TED talk by Monica Lewinskey). Lewinsky admits that the scandal between her and Clinton had shamed her reputation and humiliated her. Under the belief that her potential career was over, Lewinsky admitted that she had