Mutilation is to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts. This includes female genital mutilation, flagellation, wheeling but also, circumcision, piercing, and tattooing. Mutilation correlates with the short story of “The Lottery.” People who love and want to continue cruel mutilations such as the stoning in “The Lottery,” mutilation use the excuse of tradition. The stoning in “The Lottery” like many types of mutilation is only done only to satisfy the mind of a belief, entertainment, and other reasons. Mutilation has always been practiced by humans throughout history for purposes such as ritual, folk medicine, aesthetics, or corporal punishment and has always been a big part of human culture. Mutilation relates to The Lottery are the use of tradition as an excuse to commit it, usually, it is done to satisfy the mind of a thought not being a necessity to live, and is a big part of human history. People often give the reason of it is tradition to continue gruesome mutilations. A very great example is bullfighting which is a spectacle in which men ceremonially fight with and in the Hispanic tradition kill bulls in an arena for public entertainment,” However, people who enjoy this spectacle say it is a complex ritual vital to Spanish culture, even though it is heinous and gruesome mutilation of a …show more content…
People say it is tradition to the mutilations causing harm to living beings. Mutilations are many times completed only to gratify the mind of a belief, entertainment and/or other reasons not a necessity to living. Mutilation is a part of human culture as it has been practiced as it has been widely practiced throughout history because of reasons such as ritual, folk medicine, aesthetics, or corporal