The Lottery Ritual Analysis
The Traditional Ritual
" The Lottery "
Michelle Jackson, provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions subsequently blindly, without even thinking how much sense it actually makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones.( 235-243) The name of the title makes you consider that this story is concerning drawing numbers and winning a prize, then to my surprise it is about how a tiny village involved in a tradition, ritual every year stoning to death one of their own in a town of roughly “three hundred people”. (237)
The villagers do not have knowledge of how the lottery began several generations ago, however, seems extra interested in the act of keeping the ritual alive and …show more content…
preserving the tradition. The villagers’ (excitement of the lottery outweighs the grief and consciousness of putting a loved one to death in this close-knit village) 240. The villagers have not seriously considered revolution, or to terminate the lottery, since no one is forcing them to maintain this ritual. They just continue to have the ritual, and freely following a tradition that started long ago, even before the village “oldest” man
(237) coexisted. Just consider, if the people of the village would have stopped to say “why” and questioned it, they just must ask themselves why are they conducting a lottery to kill their love ones and friends to death. Traditions are suitable enough reason for the villagers to validate their actions. The villagers murdered fellow villagers and the victim not guilty of anything, except chosen a wrong slip of paper with a black mark on it. The lottery intended that everyone has an equal chance of becoming a victim, including children are at risk. Once a year, one-person is stoned to death, and no family excluded. What makes “The
Lottery” so frightening is the callousness the villagers attack the victim. In other words, I believe the minute (a person picked the marked paper; the family and friends are ready to partake in the stoning with as much excitement as everyone else) 242. The woman basically becomes a stranger, and source of excitement for him or her as well as the enthusiasm of torment. Although the woman did not do anything wrong, it does not fix, or mean anything to the people from the village when they are ready, to stone anyone to death. She has picked the marked paper from the box, and at present she has become the target. According to the traditions of the lottery at the completion of the drawing, the woman must now be stoned to death.
The woman’s death is an outrageous this example transpires an illustration of how societies can attack innocent people for meaningless reasons.
People that are innocent of no wrongdoing become “targeted” because of a tradition, example, they don’t believe in god or if they are gay. The truth is that the same way the villagers act in “The Lottery” they blindly follow tradition and stone innocent people to death, for people will condemn without questioning, why.
The (villagers make up of families’) 238 and the families plays a vast part of the assembling of the lottery drawing, nevertheless the weight of the family only increases the stoning’s mercilessness killings, since it shows how family members can turn against each other. In the village, families are in groups, and all family members are present. The (head intofor the family, and household members within the family) 238, on the lists, indicate which member selects the paper from the black box. Once somebody has picked the marked paper, the woman’s children and husband turned against her the same way the other folks have done. Family ties and bonds are all broken, there remains no devotion, or love, during the lottery, or once the lottery finished.
“The
Lottery” is every act, conduct, or impression that passed down from
one generation, to another generation that accepted and followed blindly, no matter how irrational, weird, or harsh. The lottery remains a tradition that no one dared to question. The lottery is a prime example of what is existing in today’s society in the practice of following traditional rituals, without asking the one question why.
" The Lottery "
Michelle Jackson, provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions subsequently blindly, without even thinking how much sense it actually makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones.( 235-243) The name of the title makes you consider that this story is concerning drawing numbers and winning a prize, then to my surprise it is about how a tiny village involved in a tradition, ritual every year stoning to death one of their own in a town of roughly “three hundred people”. (237)
The villagers do not have knowledge of how the lottery began several generations ago, however, seems extra interested in the act of keeping the ritual alive and …show more content…
preserving the tradition. The villagers’ (excitement of the lottery outweighs the grief and consciousness of putting a loved one to death in this close-knit village) 240. The villagers have not seriously considered revolution, or to terminate the lottery, since no one is forcing them to maintain this ritual. They just continue to have the ritual, and freely following a tradition that started long ago, even before the village “oldest” man
(237) coexisted. Just consider, if the people of the village would have stopped to say “why” and questioned it, they just must ask themselves why are they conducting a lottery to kill their love ones and friends to death. Traditions are suitable enough reason for the villagers to validate their actions. The villagers murdered fellow villagers and the victim not guilty of anything, except chosen a wrong slip of paper with a black mark on it. The lottery intended that everyone has an equal chance of becoming a victim, including children are at risk. Once a year, one-person is stoned to death, and no family excluded. What makes “The
Lottery” so frightening is the callousness the villagers attack the victim. In other words, I believe the minute (a person picked the marked paper; the family and friends are ready to partake in the stoning with as much excitement as everyone else) 242. The woman basically becomes a stranger, and source of excitement for him or her as well as the enthusiasm of torment. Although the woman did not do anything wrong, it does not fix, or mean anything to the people from the village when they are ready, to stone anyone to death. She has picked the marked paper from the box, and at present she has become the target. According to the traditions of the lottery at the completion of the drawing, the woman must now be stoned to death.
The woman’s death is an outrageous this example transpires an illustration of how societies can attack innocent people for meaningless reasons.
People that are innocent of no wrongdoing become “targeted” because of a tradition, example, they don’t believe in god or if they are gay. The truth is that the same way the villagers act in “The Lottery” they blindly follow tradition and stone innocent people to death, for people will condemn without questioning, why.
The (villagers make up of families’) 238 and the families plays a vast part of the assembling of the lottery drawing, nevertheless the weight of the family only increases the stoning’s mercilessness killings, since it shows how family members can turn against each other. In the village, families are in groups, and all family members are present. The (head intofor the family, and household members within the family) 238, on the lists, indicate which member selects the paper from the black box. Once somebody has picked the marked paper, the woman’s children and husband turned against her the same way the other folks have done. Family ties and bonds are all broken, there remains no devotion, or love, during the lottery, or once the lottery finished.
“The
Lottery” is every act, conduct, or impression that passed down from
one generation, to another generation that accepted and followed blindly, no matter how irrational, weird, or harsh. The lottery remains a tradition that no one dared to question. The lottery is a prime example of what is existing in today’s society in the practice of following traditional rituals, without asking the one question why.