... only has books older than a hundred years included in it mean that modern works are sometimes ignored, so the canon also makes people consider the view of older times and we are constantly looking back. Many of the views of other times are outdated in the modern society, but because they are part of the literary canon and often taught in school, means that the future generations ... , although its words may ring true for a future generation. It was once believed that the earth was the center of the universe, although there were a few dissenting ideas: the sun was the center of the univer...

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... Shakespeare's time, we would overlook the underlying message embedded in such characters such as the witches in MacBeth. Another prominent belief at the time was that of 'cosmic order' and the 'Chain of Being'. The universe was thought to be in certain order such that the earth stood the centre and planets revolved around it. Along with this were the angels, saints and ... the other hand, represent the civil order. This is in itself already placing masculinity above any females in the text. Elizabethan society would have accepted this as being normal, however a modern audience would int...

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... in which we humans engage in order to educate and place ourselves in the world and to make sense of our beings and universe (Haviland/Gordon 1). Knowing that, we should consider talking about people or gossip our link between a primate past and the world of modern anthropology, not idle chatter. "Apes and monkeys, humanity's closest kin, differ from other animals in the ... someone who gossips. This supports the idea that gossip is at least a major aspect of anthropology, if not the same concept. If one considers gossip as only an aspect of anthropology, one must also look at the functio...

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