Identity in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Isaac Babel’s My First Goose

The concept of identity is repeated in our daily life, but it has been explained in various ways. Generally, an identity means how people perceive themselves and the surrounding people to distinguish themselves. "Individual identity is an attribute, meaning that the actor gives to himself, they are self-assigned and self-attributable and are considered to be personally unique" (David 2) Meanwhile, "collective identity is accused of being attributed to others in an attempt to place others in social space.

Shirley · Jackson's "Lottery" and Kate · Chopin's hourly story "Shirley · Jackson's Lottery" and Kate · Chopin's "Hourly" have similarities and differences in literary elements. Especially when the author uses prophecy to manipulate the emotions of the story and subtlely add irony to deceive the reader. - In many literary works, writers use implications to allow readers to establish multiple connections between many different important works of art. Whether it is part of a poem, novel, or a casual / blinking dialogue, in any type of literary work, because of their hidden but obvious meaning, We are connected.

Shirley Jackson's traditional Shirley Jackson's traditional Shirley Jackson's insight and social observations are reflected in her shocking and uneasy short story "Lottery". In this story, Jackson reveals two common attitudes: one is a shocking tendency for society to choose scapegoat, and the second is that the community is a victim of social tradition and rituals It is that. - Shirley · Jackson's lottery "Lottery" (short story by Shirley · Jackson) tells a story about disturbing social practices. The environment occurs in a small village of about 300 inhabitants. Every year on June 27th this traditional community member will hold a complete village lottery, and everyone should join. Throughout the story, readers are amazed at the residents and their annual practices. Until the end, he or she knows the content of the lottery.