Support your view with readings and productions. ... Elizabethans held strong beliefs in the Wheel of Fortune, with each element in the universe having its own natural order. ... The play was a modern parable about the dangers of industrial greed and need for absolute power, with the setting being a microcosm of 1980s Europe. ... The set of a decaying factory satisfied modern agendas as it focused on the proletarian society, conveying how Lear' s possession of power lead to corruption as he felt he could divide his industrial power. ... Edmond's mockery stresses the gulf between t...

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In modern times we have become increasingly obsessed with the artifacts and material objects that surround us then the people that surround us. ... Human existence is not singular but multidimensional; the universe does not revolve around the self and we are only an infinitesimal part of something greater than each of us. ... So in this our modern time we have focused more on having than being and this growing focus on having, which has created a sort of neurosis called "the terror of the reversible". ... In this modern world there has become a growing struggle between love and fastidiousness,...

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For example, in chapter 1 Abram travels to Indonesia on a research grant to study the relationship between modern medicine and magic. ... From a western point of view this all may seem very unorthodox, mainly because we view most things in the world as inanimate matter that does not have the ability perceive. ... Many western religions view the afterlife as a non-earthly place. They also tend to view the human spirit as separate from the human body. ... Many ethnocentric beliefs have been engraved into western culture throughout the course of history, which further distanced them from the view...

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