Marie Antoinette Verses Hester Prynne

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"I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one]. " -Mother Theresa Shunning is a common concept that has been used throughout our years of existence. Although it may not be used as a public sentence the same way as it may have been long ago, it is still implied in today’s society. People like to spend their time on judging someone on how they dress, act, talk, or who they hang out with. People just do this because of their insecurity, fear, jealousy, hate, or because of a crime of any size they have committed. Though the possibilities of reasons are almost endless, it depends on the situation and the people that do shun. Shunning of any form has caused many people in our society to suffer and feel neglected on a daily basis. Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess who married to King Louis XVI in 1774 during the times of the Great Fear and Reign of Terror in France. Due to various motives, she ended up spending millions of dollars on herself instead of paying off France’s debt. Her impulsive buying lead to a more extensive deficit on the country. People began to circulate scurrilous stories about the Queen and her private life. As the situation got worse, mobs were organized and riots were out breaking across the nation. Also, Marie Antoinette’s Diamond Necklace affair was a sensation that took hold of the nation by storm. The Prince de Rohan, the Cardinal of France, was unhappy that he was excluded from her inner circle, while the jeweler Boehmer could not convince Marie to buy a fabulously expensive diamond necklace which was originally made for Louis XV’s lover Madame du Barry. A woman by the name of Lamotte caught the attention of the men and convinced them she was the queen’s lesbian lover. Lamotte told Rohan
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