For essay three the Black Mirror episode was all about this woman who was involved in the murder of a 6 year old little girl that her and her fiance had kidnapped. Later after kidnapping her the fiance then set the little girl on fire and burned her alive. While that was going on the woman watched it happen. Now everyday she gets her memory wiped out by these people that host a game where they torture criminals, but to the audience it is pure enjoyment. This is similar to ancient Rome and its obsession with Gladiators. A Gladiator is a professional fighter who specialized with particular weapons and fought before the public in large purpose built arenas throughout the Roman Empire from 105 BCE to 404 CE (Cartwright 1). What makes the episode from Black Mirror and Ancient Gladiators similar is, it was one if not the most popular entertainment in Rome at the time. The Gladiators were put in the Coliseum, Arena's or at their Lannister's which is the home of the Gladiators and where they train for doing ungrateful or not respectful things. Gladiators would fight to the death on most occasions. Respected Gladiators would sometimes have the privilege to fight and kill regular untrained slaves and basically slaughter them. This is similar to the woman who was in that game show in Black Mirror. In this case she is the untrained slave and she is being tortured by not remembering anything and being put in this world were nobody will help her. When the show host tells her what she has done though the realization of that is the Trained Gladiator and its killing her on the inside. In Black Mirror the game show was showing how the suffering of another human being is entertainment to the audience. This is a lot like the gladiators, thousands of people would come to watch the Gladiators fight, sometimes they would even put tigers in the ring with Gladiators too see how they would do. The people of Rome encouraged that there must be blood split in the Arena. This meant that someone would have to suffer with being cut by a blade of some sort. In fact if the Gladiator was defeated and was still alive the crowd could actually decide whether the gladiator should live or not. Another thing too look at is that no matter how many times the woman got her memory erased and relived that day over and over again the people and or crows could still not get enough of it. This is just like the Ancient Roman people. No matter how many times a slave or Gladiator died or suffered they keep wanting more and more blood to be spilt. Lastly, In both Black Mirror and Gladiators it is safe to say that the suffering of other human beings being turned into entertainment is never ending, and more than likely it will never end even though it is cruel. 

