The Lottery The story takes place in a small village‚ where the people are close and tradition is paramount. A yearly event‚ called the lottery‚ is one in which one person in the town is randomly chosen‚ by a drawing‚ to be violently stoned by friends and family. The drawing has been around over seventy-seven years and is practiced by every member of the town. Shirley is very natural to the characters and the event. We don’t get any information about what she thinks about the situation‚ and she
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The Lottery A healthy harvest has always been important to civilizations. Once field preparation is done‚ the farmer can only wait and hope that the correct balance of rain and sun will ensure a good harvest. Many ancient cultures believed that growing crops represented the life cycle; hence they believed ritual sacrifice was needed to guarantee a good crop. In this short story "The Lottery‚" Shirley Jackson uses this archetype to showcase man ’s inherent need for such ritual. The story is set
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Othello Othello is a Shakespearean play and a morality tale‚ which is set in Venice‚ Italy and represents the themes of race‚ death and at its very heart is the ‘green-eyed monster’: Jealousy. The character of Othello is insecure and naïve. His race‚ a major theme in the play‚ shows how Othello perceives himself as a rough outsider‚ though he is nothing of the sort and his skills are nevertheless powerful‚ his power being personified by the fact that he is always surrounded by people. In Act 1
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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” The purpose of this paper will be to compare and contrast different elements of both these stories‚ but the main focus will be on the characters and the setting. In “The Lottery” and “The Most Dangerous Game” the characters are portrayed as normal human beings with normal behaviors‚ but as both stories unfold‚ the characters are shown to be evil.The Most Dangerous Game‚ by Richard Connell and The Lottery‚ by Shirley Jackson
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Through viewing the text All Summer In A Day and the film The Hunger Games‚ it is evident that both Ray Bradbury and Gary Ross used themes to convey a fictional world that criticises the world we live in. A variety of literary techniques were performed to portray this. Setting can be seen through the fictional worlds that both All Summer In A Day and The Hunger Games have illustrated to the audience. Characterisation is used to emphasise the correlation between the protagonists and the people within
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2012. Independent Study Unit: The Hunger Games vs. 1984 A Dystopian society is depicted as a vision of society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty‚ oppression‚ war‚ violence‚ disease‚ pollution‚ and the abridgement of human rights – which all result in widespread unhappiness and suffering. The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Michael Radford ’s film 1984 of George Orwell both incorporate such dystopian societies
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How far does characterisation contribute to the way in which the reader responds to events in the novel? Characters in The Great Gatsby are well-educated. Their speech and dialogue reflect this education‚ which in turn reflects their wealth and social status. I have chosen to analyse page 37-39’s language in relative of how characterisation contributes to the way the reader responds to this passage. Fitzgerald presents chapter 3 in many ways‚ like chapter 2‚ moving from one party to another
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Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins * Characters: a) -Main Characters: Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark -Secondary Characters: Gale‚ Primrose‚ Katniss’ Mother‚ Cato‚ Clove‚ Marvel‚ Glimmer‚ Foxface‚ Thresh‚ Rue‚ Haymitch & Effie b) Character Traits: -Katniss Everdeen: She is sixteen years old‚ and is portrayed as quiet‚ independent and fierce. Her looks are typical for someone from the Seam (the slums of District 12): long dark hair (which she wears in
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In the Hunger Games ‚author Suzanne Collins presents the idea that fear causes people to act against their values when survival is at stake. Fear takes over when it comes to survival.If fear is in play‚ then it influences human behavior and choices and on top of that ‚ survival is something that everyone else ( in the hunger games)‚is competing for‚ so behavior‚ choices and fear is definitely impacted when it comes to survival in the hunger games. This theory is presented because in the book‚the
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Destruction caused by the hunger games/negative influences caused by the game. This novel describes a government‚ the Capitol that controls twelve different districts categorized to one’s wealth in Panem. The poorest district‚ 13 did attempted to rebel against the government which did not work for them. Due to this rebellion they created the hunger games to be conducted every year to remind others about their authority and make them pay for what they did. By creating the games‚ they try to prove to others
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