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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

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The Perpetuation of Senseless Traditions in Shirley Jackson 's The Lottery

Introduction

Any story can be a story about social expectations but Shirley Jackson 's The Lottery ' is one story that points out the fact that it is the people themselves who perpetuate such social expectations and senseless traditions . Nevertheless , this act of perpetuation is a rather unconscious process going on in a person 's mind . Jackson 's The Lottery ' is a testament to the fact that humans are indeed the ones responsible for their fates

and for the existence of these otherwise cruel social expectations . This seeks to prove , through Jackson 's tale , that people unconsciously perpetuate the existence of these otherwise cruel and inhuman social expectations , thereby bringing themselves to their own destruction . Furthermore , this will also try to prove that almost always people also do not like the fact that they continue to bring on such traditions thereby making them hypocrites . It is also further said that Shirley Jackson 's The Lottery ' illustrates the innate savagery of man lurking beneath his civilized trappings (Nebeker 100 , which is a clear sign of hypocrisy

Proofs of Toleration and Perpetuation of Social Expectations

Jackson 's The Lottery ' is filled with several instances where the people themselves decide to continue the cruel tradition of holding a lottery in to determine the one who would be stoned by friends and family

The Participation of Children . The fact that tradition involves the children is a proof...

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