City Upon A Hill Analysis

People have always fantasized of a perfect world. But everyone pictures a different type of perfect world some want riches, others want peace. Some might picture a perfect world having world peace, religion, and community. Others might picture it as a judge free zone, where everything is free, or even rainbows and ponies. Just with all these different types of different perfect worlds it is simple to tell that people are never capable of agreeing on what the perfect world should include. So in this generation and more to come a perfect world is impossible because of the fact that people can't agree. In “City Upon a Hill” Winthrop mentions religion, in having a perfect world. This is something that many believe makes a perfect world but in …show more content…
But even if it was like that it would never happen because there will always be those who disagree with what they are being taught to believe and start some type of controversy. An article that goes hand in hand with that is “The Lottery” (1948) where they have a yearly event of having the head of household by letting them pick a piece of paper and the one to get a piece of paper with a black dot gets stoned to death. The person who “won” was Bill Hutchinson and his wife Tessie Hutchinson immediately started protesting, saying “ You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!” (Jackson). If thought about we all know Tessie has been raised knowing about this event and even participating in it, but once it had to do with her husband being stoned she found this yearly event unfair. Which goes to show no matter what someone is raised to think is right or believes in once they feel it's violating them or is against then they will disagree with it and try to do the opposite or try to stop it from