Villager

brief excerpt from Joseph Nye's, Hypothetical Situation, we see a very unethical action soon to take place just as we intervene. A local military officer is detected about to execute three villagers for the death of one officer who was shot the night prior. We intervene and we are given the choice to shoot one villager to save two. A quick glance at this and you experience a sense of a philosophical dilemma. There are various ways to go about solving this dilemma and each one of them has its…

The villagers in the town have changed a lot of traditions in the ceremony: “so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded ”(2). They change the clip of wood to slips of paper, and also leave out some complicated part of the ceremony:“ but years ago this…

The black box is the core process of the lottery since all villagers names are placed in it before a “winner” is determined. While the villagers get started for the lottery, the narrator mentions, “The black box grew shabbier each year; by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in…

no functionality except during these two hours of every June. The purpose of the box, like the lottery itself, has become obscure with the passage of time. It is well worn, but the villagers are reluctant to let it go, again like the lottery itself. In fact, I don’t think it’s too farfetched to say that the villagers’ treatment of the box represents their thinking on the subject of the lottery as a whole. Alternatively, black is culturally known as a color of evil. A color suggesting death.…

would like to talk about is the everyday life of the villagers in Ceren 3. According to archaeology.about.com, the artifacts that were found in Ceren gave us an idea of how villagers practiced their daily normal lives. o Archeologists were able to find everyday tools that villagers used. o They found things like cooking tools that probably used in the kitchen and tools used for storing food. o The rooms found inside the houses of the villagers, such as the feasting rooms provided an idea that…

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.…

and thoughtfully convince the audience to protest against the dehumanization of society and random, pointless killings as well as become aware of the government. In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to show the dehumanization of the villagers. Shirley Jackson introduces the story to the audience with a warm and pleasant approach to suggest that the lottery is just another typical annual celebration, where the winner will obtain valuable prizes. The story, then, quickly changes…

death one of their own in a town of approximately three hundred people. The villagers do not know how the lottery began many generations ago, but seems to be more interested in the act, keeping the ritual alive and preserving the tradition. The villagers’ excitement of the lottery outweighs the grief and consciousness of putting a loved one to death in this small close knit village. The villagers haven’t seriously considered change, or trying to end the lottery,…

curb the traditional Catholic practices of Morebath and replace them with state regulated Protestantism. However, the villagers of Morebath resisted, in what little ways they could, as did other small, West England parishes. Ultimately, their story unearths a different historical perspective of the English Reformation, in which Protestantism was not embraced, but enforced. The villagers of Morebath had several outlets for their traditional faith. In the days before the encroaching regulations,…

is going to show you crucial evidence on why the event takes place. The reason why the villagers "have" to have a lottery is simply because the lottery had become a tradition that had been followed since the time of the villagers' ancestors. As a result, the villagers had become so used to repeating this practice over and over that they would not even find anything right, nor wrong, with it. In fact, the villagers themselves may not know why they even hold a lottery, however, they do not…