Literature as a Powerful Force in Creating Social Stability (An Anthropological Study)

Abstract

This research sought to study the topic (Literature as an effective force in creating societal stability, an anthropological study), tracing the values ​​and human aspects and their relationship with reality, culture, behavior, and practices. It also provided an overview of the effectiveness of literature and its impact, by tracking the anthropological functions, and how to search for aspects influencing the change in psychological, social and cultural reality, and monitoring the process of creative influence on the recipient and making him more capable of understanding, thinking and tasting, by presenting examples of literary texts, analyzing them and monitoring their dimensions. Explaining its impact on the nature of the soul and life and monitoring its ability to achieve stability, security and construction. Literature is a wide-ranging means that instills the quality of acceptance of the other, individually, in societies, and in culture. It gives an image of understanding with others, excluding them, in an accepting, sentimental form. Hence, dealing with others disappears, and it encourages tolerance and understanding, and here produces stability and harmony and draws cooperation between people. Perhaps the method most capable of tracking these elements and those relationships between literature and the reality of society is the anthropological method.