The Lottery
The Lottery
Banality of Evil The term the banality of evil would not have been known to Shirley Jackson; it was introduced in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in
Set in 1948 and published in The New Yorker, the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes an annual ritual, in a small village that leads to death Jackson examines the basics of human nature in “The Lottery,” asking whether or not all humans are capable of violence and cruelty, and exploring how those
lottery sambad 14 tarik result In The Lottery, Shirley Jackson represents the notion of the scapegoat as someone who is blamed for the evils of a society and banished in The main theme of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, is the power of tradition and ritual The tradition of the lottery is continued every year
