Utopia In Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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I am against Utopias. Utopias are based off of a person’s perspective of perfect. They cause destruction, and ruin affiliated places. In Utopias, there are bound to be disagreements, which most likely lead to arguments (which are mainly over power). In Utopias there is always that one person who has control over everyone and everything and they take full advantage of it.
Utopias are based off of one person’s perspective of perfect. I don’t think that its fair because not everyone may enjoy what you think is better. In my opinion, Utopia has no government because it seems that its only ran by one person. One person has full control and the final say in everything. In the short story, “The Lottery”, it was only one person that decided that it …show more content…

Until the creator of the “utopia” made it into something terrible. The creator ended up making a mess of the island. Trying to hunt someone who was looking for shelter. He considered it as fun.
In Utopias there a bound to be disagreement that usually turns into arguments over power. Usually a citizen of the utopia is tired of the way they are living and so they confront the ruler. The ruler sometimes gets defensive and takes advantage of his power and belittles the citizen. In the book “Animal Farm”, the animals confront the farmer and cause a huge destruction because they disagreed on how they should be treated and how their living conditions should be.
In Utopias there is always that one person who has control over anything and everything. They feel that because they created this so called “utopia” and that everyone is living in it that they could treat anyone any type of way because they feel superior over everyone. So the founders or rulers come up with all these specific rules on what they think is good. Sometimes they turn into dictators because they feel obligated to treat people badly because they feel as if they have all the power. In “The House of the Scorpion”, El patron