After reading the text on the Lottery,I had many questions and feelings going on in my mind,causing me to stop whatever I was doing and think in more depth. Click here for the link to The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
First of all, I would just want to say how it is relevant to our today's society. In what ways are the themes of the Lottery related to the present and probably the future, you may ask.
Firstly, Man's infixed evil. How is this related to the story and our present society? Evil is always innate in us , just that we had yet to find out.Evil is the devil among us,causing us to do all sorts of bad deeds and actions. This will not only harm ourselves but also harm those that are around us, causing them to be emotionally, and probably physically hurt by our bad deeds. The bad side of us , which is not usually shown , can be reflected clearly in The Lottery. This is so when the villagers were basically devouring a member of its own community by stoning Tessie Hutchinson. Without sparing a thought for her feelings, they stoned her and thus causing her to be the sole exclusion to give the remaining community members a bonding and fun experience,from the villagers' point of view. If others from other villages pass by this village and find out what they are doing to one of their village members, what would they think???? Would they think it positively or negatively?? They would feel that this village is a village filled with an evil atmosphere in the air, spreading around to all the villagers from the quote "Old Man Warner was saying," Come on, come on,everyone.".This village is too possessed with all the evil thoughts ,that the villagers in this village do not know how to respect other's feelings and they do not even give a thought about the remorse that he / she would feel after stoning their own village member.
Secondly,the destructive nature of ancient rituals. Ancient rituals, which means rituals that have long been forgotten, were destructive and were harmful to mankind.Thus,the rituals were slowly forgotten. Then causing the mankind to work together as a team , to spare a thought for others and to show a good side at all times.The destructive nature of ancient rituals are shown so clearly from The Lottery,"Mrs Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her." Do the villagers spare a thought for her before stoning her with the most anciewnt sacrificial weapon--stones? No, they do not. They just take advantage of the destructive nature of the stones, the mass, to kill someone. With the destructive nature of the stoning, they over rely on the stonbes to kill someone, and not invent new items that are less destructive that the most ancient sacrificial weapon--stones.Also as the ritual has been incorporated for more than 50 years, they are used to it and thus thay take it as a norm that people doit just for the skae of finishinmg the ancient ritual by using stones, so that thay would be able to kill the person easier and so that they could quickly go back to their normal lives after the ritual.
Thank You.
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