Examples Of Human Sacrifice In The Lottery

Discussion in Human Sacrifice
In “The Lottery”, people who draw the slip of paper with a black spot on it will be stoned to death by reason that the villagers maintain a belief that killing someone is of great benefit to the whole village. This kind of human sacrifice is a collective act of murder because people force another person to sacrifice his life innocently for their own interests. As described in the novel, “Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now and she held her hands out desperately”, from which we can see that selfish villagers are murdering Tessie Hutchinson actively. So the lottery is a collective act of murder.
It is not morally justified because the person who will be stoned to death is not voluntary