Comparing The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell And The Lottery

The purpose of this paper will be the comparing and contrasting of two short stories previously read and interpreted by the writer. The two stories chosen were “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. These two stories seem to have nothing in common, as they have two separate meanings in two separate eras. However, the moral of each story draws similarity, the author’s paints a picture to keep the audience open minded therefore connecting them in distinct ways.

The hazards of following tradition or living according to society norms; doing things just because society accepts and follows.

Thesis Statement: "The Lottery by Shirley Jackson" and " Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthrone" stories, Shirley Jackson encourages her readers to question their beliefs, actions, and the world by creating struggle.

Dystopian stories works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction”. Often these stories have many themes that can relate to the real world. In the dystopian story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, many themes such as false hopes,hypocrisy, ritual, and mob mentality are expressed throughout the story. In the story everyone in a small village gather in the town square for the lottery, whoever gets chosen gets stoned to death by everyone in the town including friends and loved ones. The use of different themes throughout the story relate to the literary devices and universal storytelling elements setting, verbal irony, symbolism, and social cohesion.

Human nature is the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting that humans tend to have naturally. At the heart of “The Lottery” lies the question of whether the townspeople continue the practice due to their human nature, or if this cruel tradition leads the townspeople to continually act against their human nature. In answering that question, A.R. Coulthard clearly argues that “savagery fuels evil tradition, not vice versa”. However, Jackson never seems to make a strong statement that the nature of the

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a story littered with warnings and subtext about the dangers a submissive society can pose. While the opening is deceptively cheery and light Jackson uses an array of symbols and ominous syntax to help create the apprehensive and grim tone the story ends with. Her portrayal of the town folk as blindly following tradition represents the world during World War II when people’s failure to not mindlessly accept and heed authority lead to disastrous consequences. . Shirley Jackson uses a large array of techniques to help convey the idea that recklessly following and accepting traditions and orders can lead to disastrous consequences.

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, and The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson share the theme of. Lord of the Flies takes place on an island in the Pacific Ocean during an atomic war, where there is no adult supervision. "The Lottery" takes place in a small farming community in the present day. In both stories, the characters’ lives are all at risk, and yet, no one realizes that they can change their fate by changing their lifestyle and make themselves safer. All they must do is stand up to the “leaders” and state their opinions and thoughts. Opinions are as varied as there are people. In The Lottery and Lord of the Flies, the characters are aware of what is going on, except they are too afraid of the “if” in life. In The Lottery, “if” a villager

Richard Connell and Shirley Jackson explore the perpetuation and condoning of human evils through storytelling in their short stories; “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Lottery”. Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a short story about a rural town, approximately 300 and it’s strange tradition. This “tradition” pertains to the people of the town all partaking in a “Lottery”. This Lottery’s objective is to draw a black marked note. He who draws the final marked note is sentenced to a ruthless, brutal and painful death by stoning. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” a big game hunter by the name of “Sanger Rainsford” falls overboard and is left stranded on a ship-trap island. Rainford finds himself in a gigantic house. In the home,

Nebeker, Helen E. “The Lottery’: Symbolic Touch De Force” Short Story Criticism, edited by Jenny Cromie, vol. 39, Gale Group, 2000, 75 vols, pp. 187-90. Originally published in American Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, March, 1974, pp. 100-07.

Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" both attempt to provide their readers with the cruel truth regarding how it is typically human to express interest in cold-blooded acts. These two short stories discuss about people who see nothing wrong with promoting criminal behavior, but who eventually come to acknowledge the horrible position that the victim is in by experiencing it from a first-person perspective. Sanger Rainsford, and, respectively, Tessie Hutchinson are the central characters in these two stories and they are unable to complexly understand the situation that a victim is in until they actually realize that they are the victims.

A quote from well-known Scottish killer, Dennis Nilson, states exactly what his motives were for viscously killing his innocent victims. “I did it all for me,” he says, “purely selfish. I worshipped the art and act of death, over and over. It is as simple as that. Afterwards, it was all sexual confusion, symbolism, honouring the ‘fallen’. I was honouring myself. I hated the decay

The documentary, “The Lottery” by Madeleine Sackler, is about a neighborhood in New York City called Harlem. Harlem is populated by a majority of low-income African-American residents. The documentary tries to inform us about how hard it is to get good education in a poor community like this one and how crucial it is for low-income parents to make it happen through a lottery in the Harlem Success Academy Charter School. Is this documentary an effective argument? An effective argument should be informative, persuasive, should have strong appeal, and strong evidence. Yes, I believe that this documentary is an effective argument because it has all the qualities required for an effective argument.

There are facts about the world that are undeniable. Life begins and ends, humans learn and grow, and where there is light there will always be dark that follows. Even the least cynical person cannot deny that the world is divided into two types of people - those who are strong and those who are weak. Ultimately, the strong will survive while the weak will die off, as if it were a version of natural selection focused on emotion rather than a physical being. This observation was noted by John Steinbeck, who similarly stated that the strong survive while the weak are exploited or neglected. His statement is true, based on the man and the boy’s resilience in The Road, the alternative ending to The Lottery, and Billy Pilgrim’s time travel abilities in Slaughterhouse Five.

When I think of the lottery, I think of a game basically where they choose one number and something or something gets chosen.

Historically, there have been various attempts to justify the killing of human beings. Doctor X, in Adam Szymkowicz’s Hearts Like Fists, symbolizes all the poor justifications for killing. “Shh. You won’t feel a thing. You would thank me if you could. […] ‘Thank you,’ you would say, ‘for killing me now while I’m happy.’ ‘Later,’ you will tell me, ‘ Later my lover will disappoint me. Will leave me or trap me or make me wish I were dead, so thank you for killing me now and making permanent this moment of perfection,’” (Szymkowicz p. 400). Doctor X experiences heartbreak, and