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Date In the “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson take place in small village where every year they choose a person to be stoned in hopes that they will have a good corn yield. It is shown as a traditional ritual where by people pull out slips of paper and the person to get the paper with a spot on it has to put up his family for selection, the entire family then redraws the slips of paper and the one to draw the spot is stoned, sentence to death. The second story is a play, “Hamlet” written by Shakespeare. It is the story of a Danish king, one who is riddled with suspicion and paranoia. The entire play revolves around the paranoid nature of the King; it starts from the mysterious assassination of the King’s father and eventually leads to the death of Hamlet himself. Both works have two similarities, the air of gloom and tragedy, and a paranoid main character. …show more content…
Since the story is shrouded in death, absurdity, depression, loss and sadness. The author uses satire humor to mock absurd traditions that people are fearful of letting go off. The author concentrates the focus of the writing on the mood that she tries to set for the reader. More importantly, the focus is on the character and that is the character of Tessie Hutchinson who was selected to be stoned. She is shown as someone who is extremely paranoid. She accuses the lottery of being rigged, of being unfair, she claims that her husband was not given enough time to pick up a paper and that everything was rushed. The entire story of the lottery revolves around Hutchinson, not in a way that directly involves her, but in that the entire story is a buildup of finding her from within the crowd, the author builds up the anticipation and the suspense in finding her, making her the axis of the
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Date In the “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson take place in small village where every year they choose a person to be stoned in hopes that they will have a good corn yield. It is shown as a traditional ritual where by people pull out slips of paper and the person to get the paper with a spot on it has to put up his family for selection, the entire family then redraws the slips of paper and the one to draw the spot is stoned, sentence to death. The second story is a play, “Hamlet” written by Shakespeare. It is the story of a Danish king, one who is riddled with suspicion and paranoia. The entire play revolves around the paranoid nature of the King; it starts from the mysterious assassination of the King’s father and eventually leads to the death of Hamlet himself. Both works have two similarities, the air of gloom and tragedy, and a paranoid main character. …show more content…
Since the story is shrouded in death, absurdity, depression, loss and sadness. The author uses satire humor to mock absurd traditions that people are fearful of letting go off. The author concentrates the focus of the writing on the mood that she tries to set for the reader. More importantly, the focus is on the character and that is the character of Tessie Hutchinson who was selected to be stoned. She is shown as someone who is extremely paranoid. She accuses the lottery of being rigged, of being unfair, she claims that her husband was not given enough time to pick up a paper and that everything was rushed. The entire story of the lottery revolves around Hutchinson, not in a way that directly involves her, but in that the entire story is a buildup of finding her from within the crowd, the author builds up the anticipation and the suspense in finding her, making her the axis of the