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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": A Compare and Contrast Analysis of the Roles of the Men, Women and Children
Title: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": A Compare and Contrast Analysis of the Roles of the Men, Women and Children
Category: Literature
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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": A Compare and Contrast Analysis of the Roles of the Men, Women and Children
In Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" she represents an average society with seemingly common order and widely developed traditions which everybody is forced or even glad to follow whatever they are. First we see how everybody has traditionally defined roles within the community: men, women and even children know well how they are expected to behave. Men are the dominating part; they have the right to make decisions for their families. Women have a …showed first 75 words of 817 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 817 total…or simply aren't worth the result. They would see that they don't have to tolerate them or avoid them or shut their eyes at these things because they do not affect them directly. They would realize that they have to speak up and be heard before something unpleasant happens even if it seems that they cannot find the energies to protest.
Works Cited
Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery". 40 Short Stories. Ed. Beverly Lawn. New York: Bedford, 2001.
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