Ticket To Death In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

The Lottery Ticket to Death Tess Hutchinson is the wife and mother in a little town in New England. She is seen as an incident regular housewife who strongly supports her husband and children. The town seems authentically peaceful and quiet. This town also keeps in order their cultural traditions that has been happening for hundreds of years now. One of their many traditions includes the activity called “the Lottery.” Unfortunately “the Lottery” is not what many people think that it could involve such as money or currency. It actually associates itself with the death of a human being against its will or scapegoating. In Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery, Jackson demonstrates the theme of mankind's cruelty to others, through Tess

Drawing “The Lottery” out of the box for a human sacrifice is a tradition in the book that the village does every year. Ancient society and religious groups around the world have human sacrifices to prove themselves worthy to whoever they worship. Such as the Aztecs, Mayans, and Egyptians. Another element this storyline is shown as an allegory this the fact that Tess Hutchinson’s death was ruled by stoning. “Mr. Dunbar had small stones in both hands” ( Jackson 7). The whole village is happily prepared to stone Tess to complete their ritual. Which is executing done by a fellow community as a punishment (Elton Gahr ). “The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles” ( Jackson 7). Even Tess’s children are graciously ready to stone their own mother.

Another event “The Lottery” represents is the Holocaust or Nazi Germany ( Lottery, by Shirley Jackson: Literary Criticism). The Holocaust was an unmerciful event that unfolded from 1933- 1945. Incident citizens were ferociously murdered for their physical traits and various people and families were murdered because the Nazi’s hadf just picked them out, out of the random. Just like those who were picked off out of their lives by the Nazi’s, Tess had been randomly selected to be killed. And without having any say to defend herself, Tess was