Societal Norms In The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
Are you part of the societal norm? Some people believe once a law has been passed that you may exercise you rights despite going against the societal norm. Normally, a little piece of expensive paper won’t inhibit opposition from intervening. When groups differ from us they will almost always face opposition.
One way groups inhibit others who are different from them create obstacles that inhibit their ability to practice their rights. When gay marriage was legalized in 2015, Alabama made all marriage illegal simply to stop gays from marrying. This is the equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Opposition also protests government policies by blatantly disregarding laws or directly protesting to subordinate groups. Many groups …show more content…
The KKK threatened African American men who attempted to vote after the 15th amendment was passed. Leading quickly to lynching’s and fear of voting, the African men inherently lost their right to vote.
Most of these groups have a variation of mob mentality often leading to violence. In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”, the townspeople kill a member of the town each “lottery”. Many of the members don’t even know the reason they kill someone, but the slaughtering is a tradition, so the entire town stones one member. They seemingly moved as a single like- minded unit as “they were upon her” (Jackson 34). Because of these radically violent groups, groups must be extremely resilient to go against what others don’t believe is correct.
Lastly, despite our widely diverse population, groups often naturally segregate themselves. Even simplistic situations such as the school lunch room have unintentional segregation. The popular kids, the nerds, the jocks, the goths, and even the dragon book kids (people who read the eight part thick book series), and they don’t intentionally self- segregate. As human beings, we enjoy being around people with similar opinions as we have. This is shown in Lisa Goessel’s movie trailer “My So- Called Enemy” where the girls say “they don’t want to build a bridge” (Gossels) to join the Palestinians and Israeli
One way groups inhibit others who are different from them create obstacles that inhibit their ability to practice their rights. When gay marriage was legalized in 2015, Alabama made all marriage illegal simply to stop gays from marrying. This is the equivalent of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Opposition also protests government policies by blatantly disregarding laws or directly protesting to subordinate groups. Many groups …show more content…
The KKK threatened African American men who attempted to vote after the 15th amendment was passed. Leading quickly to lynching’s and fear of voting, the African men inherently lost their right to vote.
Most of these groups have a variation of mob mentality often leading to violence. In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”, the townspeople kill a member of the town each “lottery”. Many of the members don’t even know the reason they kill someone, but the slaughtering is a tradition, so the entire town stones one member. They seemingly moved as a single like- minded unit as “they were upon her” (Jackson 34). Because of these radically violent groups, groups must be extremely resilient to go against what others don’t believe is correct.
Lastly, despite our widely diverse population, groups often naturally segregate themselves. Even simplistic situations such as the school lunch room have unintentional segregation. The popular kids, the nerds, the jocks, the goths, and even the dragon book kids (people who read the eight part thick book series), and they don’t intentionally self- segregate. As human beings, we enjoy being around people with similar opinions as we have. This is shown in Lisa Goessel’s movie trailer “My So- Called Enemy” where the girls say “they don’t want to build a bridge” (Gossels) to join the Palestinians and Israeli