Stoning In The Lottery

After reading the story “The Lottery” today when one thinks about winning the lottery one does not think about the community or close relative, one thinks about how one is going to spend the money received, while in Jackson’s short story the lottery represented a human sacrifice by means of stoning with the entire village participating. The lottery in itself is symbolic and it is basically symbolizing ritual and tradition which drives the community. Jackson’s short story is filled with symbolism which makes the readers looking for more. Throughout the story, tradition plays an important part it also shows how tradition can be pointless which causes needless problems in the society. In Jackson’s short story one can conclude that the symbols
Although Tessie protests the drawing, the villagers collect their stones and move in to throw them. In many ways, throwing the stones equates to the villagers casting their ballot in favor of continuing the lottery. Stoning is one of the oldest and most common forms of execution, but it is also one of the most symbolic. The stoning in Jackson’s “The Lottery” reminds one of the text in the Bible that relates to the woman who was caught in the act of adultery in John 8. In John 8 Jesus said to the crowd who is without sin cast the first stone and the crowd drops their stones and the woman was shown mercy while in “The Lottery” no one showed mercy on Tessie making it plain that one will be blamed for such violent act.
Death by tradition

One of the main theme in 'The Lottery' is symbolism. The theme symbolism helps to present human nature as corrupt, no matter how perfect one thinks of oneself, or how the environment may be. The short story deals with the insignificant nature of humanity when it comes to traditions it also shows how people lack compassion for each other and how people will flaunt situations due to tradition and