"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

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This paper reviews "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. The paper examines the book's theme of human society's tendency to hold on to redundant traditions and ideas, linking "The Lottery" to class-based system economics. The paper also discusses how the darkness created by the lottery is a reflection of the town's social inequality.

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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a shocking tale of a town's sacrificial lottery that satires society's obsolete traditions and rituals. By taking a far extreme, the idea of sacrifice, the author questions our obsolete traditions. However, she also criticizes our social system by putting the three most powerful men in charge of the lottery. Jackson used "The Lottery" to satirize human society both on our pointless traditions and superstitions that we continue to carry out, regardless of whether we see a point in them or not, and our ruthless class-based system, the most powerful being in control of society's welfare and the lower-class sheepishly following the guidance of their overlords.

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