Rituals

In ancient time, custom generally assisted persons to find their way and to evolve their personalities. However, custom could unseeing persons by being destructive and conceiving victims through communal pressure. Shirley Jackson's article ''The Lottery'' depicts an commonplace New England town with mean people committed in a dangerous rite, the yearly assortment of sacrificial a casualty via a public lottery. Jackson verifies her issue by Miss Hutchinson who is the casualty in the article, by displaying the tradition's selfishness outcomes while issuing her from communal pressure. However, she ironically places herself exactly in the place of the sacrificial lamb because first ...