The words the lottery immediately bring to mind the conventional idea of a lucky jackpot winner but writer Shirley Jackson had a different image in mind when using these words to title her haunting short story By manipulating this deceptive image Jackson creates an abrupt and shocking ending and sheds light on humanitys tendency to cling to meaningless rituals In the story the warm summer day the childrens play the casual chatter and the air of suppressed anticipation of the village on the day
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a story that has and will continue to be a quality piece of Literature for decades This short story has all of the key elements that any story would die without a good plot dozens of Characters whether they be major or minor a good theme and so much more Also the fact that this story is based on facts and events that actually did occur at points in time makes it so much more disturbing and interesting The Lottery is a story that shows a time in the past that ha
When it is time for the lottery the box is removed and taken to the place where the lottery is being held The names of the residents are called one at a time to come up and take a piece of paper When all of the people had come up and taken a folded piece of paper everyone reads what is written on the piece they selected but only one piece of paper had something written on it Youll have to read the story to find out what happened and who was chosen as the winner The Lottery 1948 takes us into a
The Ironic Reality of Life Shirley Jackson the author of The Lottery uses techniques that constantly build anticipation in the reader to prepare them for the shocking prize awaiting the end of the story The Lottery is filled with irony throughout the story The reader does not become conscious of the little pieces of irony that Jackson uses to build the anxiety until the ending shock when the ironies are all tied together The story seems to be about a typical reoccurring and happy event that hap
Violence and conflict Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in the world but not all the facts of his life are known We do know that he was both born in 1564 and buried in 1616 in the town of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire Shakespeare was one of eight children the first son of Mary and John Shakespeare His father was a prosperous worker with and seller of leather goods such as gloves At the time of Shakespeares birth John was an increasingly important man in th
Violence and conflict are central to Romeo and Juliet Discuss this theme with reference to at least three scenes in the play Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play which is about the teenage marriage of members of rival families and about the violence which ensues Although it is a play about love there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict The play opens with a fight between the Montague and Capulet families and ends with the suicides of both Romeo and Juliet and a peace agreement betwe
The theme of the play according to G R Elliot is that a wicked intention must in the end produce wicked action unless it is not merely revoked by the protagonists better feelings but entirely eradicated by his inmost will aided by Divine grace This is seen most clearly in Act V Scene 1 where the Doctor says More needs she the divine than the physician It also seen throughout the play in Macbeths murderous plots Also rampant through the play is the idea of Fair is foul foul is fair Basically thi
Lord of the Flies The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist Piggy saying nothing with no time for even a grunt traveled through the air sideways from the rock turning over as he went Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea His head opened and stuff came out and turned red Piggys arms and legs twitched a bit like a pigs after it has been killed 181 Hunting humans has be
The presence of good is influenced by evil due to the cunning schemes in which the evil plots Lears rash nature leads to the banishing of those who genuinely care about him As well as he is blinded by his daughters deceitful ways by fooling him into thinking they love him but really they just want their inheritance Also Gloucster shows good being influenced by the presence of evil because Edmund being the evil one influenced Gloucster into believing Edgar is plotting his death The presence of e
How does Dickens present his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times Charles Dickens presents his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times in a very clear and deliberate way It is blatantly clear that the imagery and techniques used by Dickens conveys to the audience a very negative image of education Dickens uses techniques such as repetition exaggeration metaphor and agricultural imagery to portray his attitude towards education The main technique that D