White Bear: Torture or Justice?

    White Bear made me question a lot of things about humans and why they do what they do. In this episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror a woman named Victoria wakes up confused and in pain. She searches the house and has flashbacks when she sees a picture of a little girl who she thinks is her daughter. She walks outside to find people just recording her with there phones and then a man with a mask pulls up in a car and pulls out a shot gun. So, Victoria begins to run in fear and yells at the people recording her saying "Help me please!".
              She finds another women that is not recording her and she helps her escape from the man in the mask for now. She stays with her for a majority of the episode and goes through torture running in fear and having haunting and confusing flashbacks about a symbol, a man, fire, and a young girl.
                                                                               Later in the episode she is surrounded by to people who were also chasing them; she grabs a hold of the shot gun they were holding and she shots but confetti just comes out. The walls open up and there is a whole crowd of people cheering and clapping for her. She is then seated, locked to the chair and the people who were with her took a bow to the crowd. The host, who played the gunman in the mask, begins to explain why she was put through this. They show a clip from the news that she was part of a child abduction and murder with her fiancé.
   Her fiancé did the actually torturing, killing and burning of the little girl but Victoria recorded it. They made her go through this to make her feel how the little girl felt when she was crying for help while Victoria was just there recording and not heling her. At the end of they set everything up exactly the way it was and did some electrocution treatment to her brain and then crossed off the 18th day of October. This means this happened for almost the whole month of October or even more.
     We began to discuss our thoughts about this episode in class. A student mentioned that this loop of torture reminded him of Donte's Inferno which talks about Hell. He said that there is a part of hell where people are tortured in a continuous loop based on what sin they did. So that's why she was going through what the little girl was going through continuously. We also discussed what it meant when she said that she did this because she was under her fiancé's "spell". One student said that maybe she was going through some kind of psychological abuse from him. So would it change her punishment? Does she deserve to be punished in this way? In my opinion, along with a  majority of my other classmate I think she does. That is no excuse to torture the little girl. Another classmate brought up that even though she did not do the actually torturing and killing, the fact that her fiancé committed suicide in his cell, that left only her to blame and take everything out on her. This might be why she was put through this torture every day at the White Bear Justice Park. We also began to discuss our thoughts about the children who participated during this torture. Why would the parents bring them to something like this? Wouldn't this make them think that torturing is okay? A classmate stated that maybe the parents bring them to show them that if you do something bad then this could happen to you. This episode was really creepy in my opinion and the fact that they made this episode makes me wonder how things in the justice system and prisons will change.