People’s mind and action are often constrained or affected by the social custom and culture. Usually, people’s mind is not really who they are and who they mean to be. People are often told to be “reason” is which defined by the society. People have less chance and ability to think and act independently and maturely. This social phenomenon is fully presented in Ueda Akirari’s story “Bewitched”. The background of this story is a patriarchal society, which all men must be masculine, be a master of family and business. But Toyo-o is an “unreason” man who doesn’t meet the social norm. He is a feminine man who likes study Chines, and have no interest in a family business. Therefore, Toyo-o was defined “unreason.” He cannot be what he wants to be. On the other hand, women have a completely different social status from men. At that period of time, women were inferior to men. We can easily realize this phenomenon through this story, it was presented by the name mentioned by the author. Women in this story don’t have a given name even though the characters are important. Women usually were the accessory of men, that’s women’s “reason” position and significance given by that society. In my opinion, I would not agree and support the social phenomenon. On the contrary, I prefer Descartes and Kant’s standpoint. In Descartes’s  “The Discourse On Method,” he believes that the mind is who we are and what we are meant to be. He argues that people should doubt and questions the truth instead just accept them by not knowing the meaning. In Kant’s “What is Enlightenment,” he hopes people have the courage to seek truth for themselves, not just follow the opinions of authorities. He thinks the real enlightenment is when people are free enough to think and act by themselves, people no longer need to rely on other people or authorities’ opinions to judge and understand things.