The Lottery: Scapegoating and Maintaining Homogeneousness
How a person becomes pauperized by society and customs, this is the example given by Shirley Jackson. The title “The Lottery” gives you some signs of winning, but how a whole story executes and takes place is shocking. Shocking in the sense, it shouldn’t have a meaning to win the lottery. This story takes place due to false belief and tradition. Most of the nearby villages have already retarded this tradition. The main question is why this village have kept this tradition? There are lots of possibilities that could support the answer. According to paragraph 33, villagers celebrate lottery because there was a saying, ‘ Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ This sentence shows scapegoatism. …show more content…
The Lottery title tell something about behind the scenes. All the villagers are so stubborn and orthodox that they hadn’t been wanting to change. We could see from that black box example, that they haven’t even changed the black box and accoutrements. This is not showing their fallacy but also the mentality. People neither wanted to evolve nor wanted to change their homogeneousness. They have picked the lottery to choose the person who has evolved or not willing to maintain homogeneousness. Lottery is the only way to pick the people by their luck or insight. This lottery is also indicating one thing that you could be any person in the household to have different mentality. For instance, in this short story, Mrs. Hutchinson was the evolver due to their belief. And she is not the head of her household. Not only adults, they are also dubious about kids, Davy was one of the examples why he was also involved in that lottery. This story also shows the head of gender system. Male is considered as the head of the family. Every man of the household, in the story, was going there to draw,in exception, there was one woman who drew a because of her husband’s
How a person becomes pauperized by society and customs, this is the example given by Shirley Jackson. The title “The Lottery” gives you some signs of winning, but how a whole story executes and takes place is shocking. Shocking in the sense, it shouldn’t have a meaning to win the lottery. This story takes place due to false belief and tradition. Most of the nearby villages have already retarded this tradition. The main question is why this village have kept this tradition? There are lots of possibilities that could support the answer. According to paragraph 33, villagers celebrate lottery because there was a saying, ‘ Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.’ This sentence shows scapegoatism. …show more content…
The Lottery title tell something about behind the scenes. All the villagers are so stubborn and orthodox that they hadn’t been wanting to change. We could see from that black box example, that they haven’t even changed the black box and accoutrements. This is not showing their fallacy but also the mentality. People neither wanted to evolve nor wanted to change their homogeneousness. They have picked the lottery to choose the person who has evolved or not willing to maintain homogeneousness. Lottery is the only way to pick the people by their luck or insight. This lottery is also indicating one thing that you could be any person in the household to have different mentality. For instance, in this short story, Mrs. Hutchinson was the evolver due to their belief. And she is not the head of her household. Not only adults, they are also dubious about kids, Davy was one of the examples why he was also involved in that lottery. This story also shows the head of gender system. Male is considered as the head of the family. Every man of the household, in the story, was going there to draw,in exception, there was one woman who drew a because of her husband’s