Wheel of Fortune/ Great chain of being.

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Wheel of Fortune/
Great chain of being.
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Elizabethan life theories

• There were 3 positions in life
• Clerk (Cleric)
• Knight
• Serf.
• Each estate had potential vices
• Clerk wealth, gluttony, sexual proclivity
• Knight Cowardice or abuse of peasants
• Serf Laziness and greed

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Progress

• A mercantile class grew due to trade as serfs
  gained wealth.
• Knights were given land for allegiance. This
  land and the service which went with it were
  hereditary.

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The supernatural
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clerks
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knights
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family
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Rules

• The position is pre-ordained. Anyone who tries
  to usurp anothers spot, gets knocked down.
• To leave ones place is to cause disruption or
  rebellion and will upset the natural order of
  things.