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Irony and Symbolism of Violence in The Lottery Literary Analysis
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The Lottery
Violence
Pointless Violence Under a Veil of Tradition in “The Lottery”: A Discovery Via the Tools of Irony and Symbolism Within the Framework of Formalism The approach to literary criticism known as Formalism focuses on the literary text itself as the source for meaning, and deems the text as the only context a critic should turn…
The Sheepish Nature of Humans and the Absolute Power of the Government in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
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Harrison Bergeron
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The Lottery
Government is the manner in which a class, group, state or nation is ruled or controlled. Some governing groups serve to help the people they govern, while others exist simply to suppress the common man and feed those in power. Governments have been the reason that some civilizations have thrived and others have perished. All…
| born | December 14, 1916, San Francisco, CA |
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| died | August 8, 1965, North Bennington, VT |
| description | Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. |
| books | The Lottery 1948, The Haunting of Hill House 1959, We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1962 |
| children | Sarah Hyman DeWitt, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Barry Hyman, Joanne Hyman |
| quotations | No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.,No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. The sight of one’s own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward – that’s why they’ve been given bodies, to hide their souls. |
| information | Short biography of Shirley JacksonShirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California, on December 14, 1916. Jackson began writing at an early age, and her first published story, “Janice,” appeared in a children’s magazine when she was eighteen. Jackson attended Syracuse University, where she met her future husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. The couple married in 1940, and Jackson’s first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published the same year. Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” was published in The New Yorker in 1948 and caused a sensation. The story was reprinted in Jackson’s first collection of short stories, The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris, which was published in 1949. Jackson’s second novel, Hangsaman, was published in 1951. Jackson’s third novel, The Bird’s Nest, was published in 1954, and Jackson’s fourth novel, The Haunting of Hill House, was published in 1959. Jackson’s fifth novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, was published in 1962. Jackson’s final novel, The Sundial, was published in 1958. Jackson died of heart failure on August 8, 1965, at the age of forty-eight. General Essay Structure for this Topic
Important informationSpouse: Stanley Edgar Hyman (m. 1940–1965) Short stories: The Lottery, Charles, The Possibility of Evil, The Lovely House, Louisa, Please |
