Use of Scapegoats in The Lottery and in Our World

2023-06-20 04:03:35

The existence of today's world is obsessed by the use of scapegoat. According to the dictionary, scapegoat is responsible to other people or consists of one person or group suffering instead of them. Among the most influential scapegoats are Jesus Christ suffering from civil sin, Jews punished for German problems, and American citizens who were murdered in recent 9/11 events I was punished for the crime.

By definition, Scapegoat is a person accused of not doing it. In Shirley Jackson's short story "Lottery", Tessy is definitely a scapegoat - at least for this particular picture. Lotteries have been held for many years, and no one remembers when it began or why, but it is still an annual event. Tessie did not take any punitive action, and she obviously did nothing to fulfill the role of the victim. But community citizens believe that someone has to be sacrificed (or have to be charged), so someone has to be elected. In the second year, I will also choose a new scapegoat.

Jackson's "Lottery" Shurley Jackson's provocative "lottery" is the story that anthropology provides the main symbol. Frazer's The Scapegoat (The Golden Bough, Part VI, 3rd ed., 1913) clearly shows that the lottery is a contemporary expression of Miss Jackson's first year ritual. The story imagines that in some typical American communities, rituals are still prosperous. The story begins on the morning of June 27th. (Fraser: This ceremony happens often during the summer solstice.) The first gatherings in the square where the lottery is held are children. School has recently ended, they began new freedom in anxiety, gathered quietly from the beginning, then went into a noisy game, and their conversation "still classroom and teacher, book and blame". Ceremonies are usually normal permits before and after, during which general restrictions are ignored and crimes are not punished. )