Shirley Jacksons The Lottery :: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Why would a civilized and peaceful town would ever kindle the horrifying acts of military group can take place anywhere at anytime and the roughly ordinary people can commit them. Jacksons fiction is historied for exploring incongruities in everyday life, and The Lottery, perhaps her most exemplary employment in this respect, examines humanitys capacity for evil within a contemporary, familiar, American setting. Noting that the boloneys characters, physical environment, and even its climactic action lacks significant individuating detail, most critics view The Lottery. As a modern-day parable or fable, which sidewise addresses a variety of themes, including the dark side of human nature, the danger of riteized behavior, and the potential drop for cruelty when the individual submits to the mass will. Shirley Jackson also addresses cruelty by the citizens refusal to stand up and oppose The Lottery. Violence and cruelty is a major theme in The Lottery.The theme in The Lottery is violence and cruelty. Violence and cruelty is a major theme because there is a lot of violence and cruelty in the world. The Lottery has been read as addressing such issues as the publics fascination with salacious and scandalizing journalism, McCarthyism, and the complicity of the general public in the victimization of minority groups, epitomized by the final solution of World War II. The Holocaust was very cruel and violent cause other people didnt like certain people so they just kill them and their children and all the same now we have violence and cruelty with wars and people that hate apiece other.On the morning of June 27 of a recent year, the 300 villagers of an American village prep ar for the annual lottery in a humor of excitement. The horrible tradition of the lottery is so old that some of its ritual has been forgotten and some has been changed. Its basic purpose is entirely unre atomed, but residents are present to take part in it. The children in the village create d a great pile of stones in one corner of the stoning square. The civic-minded Mr. Summers has been utter in and then he hands a piece of piece of music to the head of each family. When it is discovered the Hutchinson family has drawn the marked slip, each member of the family Bill, Tessie, and the children is given another slip. Silence prevails as suspense hovers over the proceedings. subsequently helplessly protesting the unfairness of the first drawing, Tessie finds that she holds the marked slip.