The characters in a story that reflect people in the real life, make sacrifices that are inhumane for the prominence in their society and the sacrifices they make for the individuals they truly care about. In “The Lottery” and “Romeo and Juliet” the characters in the stories replicate individuals in the actual lifetime by making sacrifices. The main purpose of sacrifices is to show the strength and courage one partakes. However, some sacrifices should not ever lead to such tragedies. Through Shakespeare and Jackson’s writings they each used symbolism, negative acts and the theory of biographical criticism to prove their purpose.
In The Lottery, the brutality of humanity and the suffering of society’s victims occur due to the human sacrifices …show more content…
In Shirley Hardie Jackson’s biography by the Dictionary of American Author, it states “Jackson was treated by a psychiatrist for some years to counteract symptoms of social withdrawal. She suffered from a sense of personal isolation, insecurities about the affection and loyalty of friends, and recurrent anxiety and depression.” All humans suffer some type of social withdrawal at some point but part of Shirley Jackson’s life was her meeting with the psychiatrist. Most of the themes of The Lottery are the dishonesty and fake friendships. Real friends would not happily throw rocks at you and purposely try to murder you. Her anxiety, her thoughts, and her symptoms of social withdrawal hardly affected her literature work. In the “Dictionary of American Biography,” it also states that “In her work she consistently identified with the underdog, and attacked racial and ethnic prejudice as well as the smug, gratuitous cruelty of the insiders in any group toward outsiders.” This truly proves how Shirley Jackson’s personal life influenced “The Lottery” and made it more elaborate in betrayal and sacrifice. The underdog in this case would the lottery itself, and the people of the village make the sacrifices and are surprisingly proud of dying from the lottery. However, sacrifice also plays a big part in many of the most known
In The Lottery, the brutality of humanity and the suffering of society’s victims occur due to the human sacrifices …show more content…
In Shirley Hardie Jackson’s biography by the Dictionary of American Author, it states “Jackson was treated by a psychiatrist for some years to counteract symptoms of social withdrawal. She suffered from a sense of personal isolation, insecurities about the affection and loyalty of friends, and recurrent anxiety and depression.” All humans suffer some type of social withdrawal at some point but part of Shirley Jackson’s life was her meeting with the psychiatrist. Most of the themes of The Lottery are the dishonesty and fake friendships. Real friends would not happily throw rocks at you and purposely try to murder you. Her anxiety, her thoughts, and her symptoms of social withdrawal hardly affected her literature work. In the “Dictionary of American Biography,” it also states that “In her work she consistently identified with the underdog, and attacked racial and ethnic prejudice as well as the smug, gratuitous cruelty of the insiders in any group toward outsiders.” This truly proves how Shirley Jackson’s personal life influenced “The Lottery” and made it more elaborate in betrayal and sacrifice. The underdog in this case would the lottery itself, and the people of the village make the sacrifices and are surprisingly proud of dying from the lottery. However, sacrifice also plays a big part in many of the most known