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GCSE English Literature · key term
The opinion other people hold about someone, which may differ from that person’s actual character or conduct.
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Paper 1
The opinion other people hold of a person, which may depend on reports and assumptions rather than their actual conduct.
Revise: Honour and reputationReputation is what other people think of someone. Hero remains innocent throughout the play, yet her reputation is almost destroyed because influential men believe and repeat a false accusation.
The opinion other people hold about a person’s character or conduct.
Connect context to the moment: explain why an accusation about Hero’s chastity threatens Leonato’s or Claudio’s reputation.
Distinguish reputation (what others believe) from morality (how someone actually behaves). Use that distinction to shape your argument.
Analyse a precise word or method, then explain how it develops your argument about family or reputation.
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The opinion other people hold about someone, especially their character or conduct.
A person's standing in the eyes of others. In Austen's society, a woman's perceived sexual respectability could affect both her own and her family's marriage prospects.
The opinion other people hold about someone’s character or conduct. In Austen’s novel, one person’s behaviour can affect the reputation of their whole family.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Honour and reputationIn Much Ado About Nothing, a person’s reputation can determine whom they marry, whether they are trusted and how they are treated. Yet reputation is not the same as virtue: people can be praised while behaving cruelly, or condemned while remaining innocent. Shakespeare makes this distinction central to Hero’s story.
Other people’s judgement of a person, which may differ from that person’s actual behaviour.
A person’s standing in the judgement of others. In Austen’s novel, a woman’s reputation depends heavily on expectations about sexual conduct and family respectability.
The judgement other people make about someone’s character or behaviour. In Pride and Prejudice, one family member’s actions can affect the reputation of the whole family.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The social judgement of a person’s character and conduct. In Austen’s marriage market, damage to one daughter’s reputation can harm the standing of her whole family.
Revise: Chapters 47 to 52An imprudent marriage would be troubling, but living together outside marriage threatens Lydia’s sexual reputation. The judgement falls especially heavily on the woman. Since marriage connects families, potential husbands might also reject her sisters as members of a supposedly disreputable household.
The judgement other people make about a person’s character, conduct or social standing.
The opinions others hold about a person’s character or conduct. Fear of damage to reputation motivates Jekyll and influences Utterson’s handling of the letter.
The opinions others hold about a person, especially concerning their character, conduct and social standing.
The judgement other people form about someone’s character or conduct; it may differ from the truth.
Component 1, Component 2
The opinion other people hold about someone's character, conduct or ability.
Revise: Act 2After Othello leaves, Cassio mourns his lost reputation. His repeated “Reputation, reputation, reputation!” in Act 2 Scene 3 conveys how completely professional honour shapes his sense of himself. He believes he has lost “the immortal part of myself”, leaving something “bestial”: losing others' respect feels like losing the dignity that makes him human.
Other people’s judgement of someone’s character, conduct or worth.
The opinion other people hold about someone's character or behaviour; it may differ from that person's actual qualities.
The opinion other people hold of a person, which may differ from that person’s actual character or behaviour.
A person’s standing in the judgement of others. In Pride and Prejudice, a young woman’s perceived sexual respectability affects both her own marriage prospects and her family’s.
The opinion other people hold of a person or family, which can affect their social acceptance and opportunities.
Social standing based on appearing respectable, trustworthy and morally proper.
The opinion other people hold about someone’s character or conduct.
