Reputation (Sarai)

In our society reputation is somewhat important. It’s not as important as it was back then. If you had a bad reputation or were doing things that were not allowed in your area, there would have been big consequences for your acts. For instance those who did witchcraft in the 1690’s knew that it was not permitted in their village. Knowing that witchcraft wasn’t allowed, some people went ahead and did it anyway. Perhaps the result of punishment was worse because the village was a very religious place at that time of period. These people accused of doing witchcraft were hanged, stoned to death, and even beaten.

 The majority of people do care about what others think of them. Otherwise they would not try to make themselves look good in public. These people dislike bad opinions because they feel that it is making them look bad in public eyes. This does not mean that there are people that do care at all of what people think of them. Since the penalty is not so severe like in the Witch Trails, they keep on doing what it is that makes there own person look bad to folks. Every human being will eventually be judge if they are or aren’t doing well.