Scapegoating

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson presents irony throughout the story by showing the effect of how tradition can change a town, which also shows how government has control of the people. The town itself represents our country’s government and how much control they have over the people. Certain people throughout the story represent those in power in government and how power is distributed throughout a country, or in the story throughout a town. The objects that the people in the story obtain…

Literature is impacted by history. History, in turn, is impacted by people who are influenced by the conformities of society. Writers are affected by the environment around them. As a result, 3 totally different periods are formed: The Puritan Era, The Age of Reason, and The Romantic Period. The Puritan Era caused a psychological wave of oddness over the people. They believed that they should blame those unwilling to fit society’s requirements. It was created as a result of the Salem Witch…

persuade and shed light on the unfair treatment. What is so powerful and effective at achieving his purpose is how Jefferson personifies one single person. He chooses the King of England in lieu of blaming the entire governmental body of the country. Scapegoating a single person allows blame focused into a common enemy…

is determined by maximizing happiness and minimizing pain. For this situation in particular, utilitarianism proves to be the right answer. However, utilitarianism isn’t always the morally-correct way to decide something. Utilitarianism prompts scapegoating by giving the majority the privilege of determining the future, no matter the cost of for the “lesser amount.” By using utilitarianism’s judgement it leaves out responsibility. The idea of responsibilities, and/or duties, is shown through…

I. Before: Analysis of Roots Causes: The underlying causes that led up to the Holocaust were antisemitism, socio- economic conditions, Aryan-racism, scapegoating, imperialism and a power-grab. The first anti-semitic act, was after Jesus was put to death by the Roman authorities. However, the gospel accounts were interpreted as blaming all Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. After the crucifixion, Roman armies destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. Jewish people were exiled. They were…

Surge of Ultra-Conservatism: The US Presidential Election and Citizenship President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was shocking to Americans, but the world community saw it coming from a mile away. The past year has been full of liberal democratic politics shifting to far right conservatism, such as with Trump’s presidential victory. Scholars such as Nissim Mizrachi and Menachem Mautner contribute that the surge of radical conservatism has in fact been the product of the “liberal democratic form…

“Arbitrary Condemnation and Sanctioned Violence in Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’”, Patrick Shields states, “The story itself shows the atavistic nature lurking beneath humankind’s civilized surface and leads the reader to examine such notions as scapegoating, ritual cleansing, gender, class structure, arbitrary condemnation, and sanctioned violence” (411). In “The Lottery” a drawing takes place to see who will be the one to be ostracized, which ended up being Tessie Hutchinson; in World War…

The United States of America—land of the free and home of the brave—has paved a path of oppression more than it has liberated. But the most heinous illustration of American despotism lies within the howling echoes of the degradation of black citizens. Among these victims is Brent Staples, author of Black Men in Public Space. Muffling his rage throughout the piece, Staples elects his own life story as the representative of his race’s odyssey through America. Yet the effectiveness of Staples’…

bubonic plague ended (“How the Black Death Came to an End). Also, to drive the plague out of a city or village people made loud noises (“How the Black Death Came to an End”). However, “The most extreme response to the terror of the plague was the scapegoating of the Jews, who were rumored to have poisend communal wells to spread disease” (“The…

The majority of what a child learns is taught by their mother who implements morals and a basic understand how the world works; this is a stereotypical ideology of what a mother’s role is. These understandings are what shape the different perceptions we experience in social, career, and romantic situations as mentioned in A mother’s Role In a Child’s Development report by HealthUnits. By personifying this stereotypical norm as the government in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid we can…