Utopia, Dystopia, Two Worlds

"The Lottery", is a story about how people stick to tradition. It describes how painstakingly people do not give up tradition and would rather kill someone than give it up. In the beginning, all of the townspeople are gathered in the TownSquare just as they do every year on this day. All the man and women are

The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, is a compelling story about the human race and how it is affected by its surrounding traditions. When the 27th of June arrives, a village is overtaken by a two hour lottery, which includes the picking of stones, a black box and ends in a fight for the “winners” life.

Utopia and Dystopia are themes that explore the substantial extents of deceiving ascendancy and contrive an impelling illusion of a ‘perfect‘ society. Utopia is described as a place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions while a dystopia, or a negative utopia, is a society characterized as an illusion of a perfect society maintained through oppressive societal control, in which exploits into an exaggerated worst-case scenario. The short stories, Harrison Bergeron, and The Lottery, are both literary examples imparted around a utopian society.

“The Lottery” takes place on a warm sunny summer day of June 27, 1948 in New England. The small farming village all gather around ten o’clock around the post office and the bank for the yearly harvest for the lottery. This village is very small compared to other villages, this particular village has only about three hundred people and we know that because the lotter only takes about two hours where other take days. The

Have you ever heard of a utopia? It’s an imagined place where everything is perfect. It may sound great, but one person’s utopia could be someone else’s dystopia. A dystopia is an imagined place where everything is unpleasant or bad. In utopias you must give up free will and your equality.

Most people believe that a utopia can be achieved without any disputes or problems but that’s wrong. A utopia is a society that is believed to be perfect while a dystopia is a total opposite. A dystopia is where everything is as bad as it can be and is often the result of an event or idea that backfired. This is important because a dystopia is usually the result of a utopia gone wrong. The human quest for perfection inevitably yields dystopian results because greediness leads to destruction, perfection takes away uniqueness, and perfection is impossible to achieve.

Many readers in the beginning would assume that the lottery would be good thing, even assume it a lottery of money. However, the lottery is the fate of life. The story setting took place in a town where the lottery takes place. There were multiple lotteries that occur though out the story.

The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson is a story about the villagers preserving a deadly tradition. The villagers are unaccepting of change and will not tolerate it. They see the lottery as part of their culture. During the lottery the villagers use a black box to draft who will be the winner. Until they are picked the villagers seem to not care.

Each person has their own vision of utopia. Utopia means an ideal state, a paradise, a land of enchantment. It has been a central part of the history of ideas in Western Civilization. Philosophers and writers continue to imagine and conceive plans for an ideal state even today. They use models of ideal government to express their ideas on contemporary issues and political conditions. Man has never of comparing the real and ideal, actuality and dream, and the stark facts of human condition and hypothetical versions of optimum life and government.

The Lottery is a story that explains how a small village celebrates a specific tradition which is called “The Lottery”, when the word “lottery” comes in mind I thought that the story would be talking about someone being picked in the village to receive or win a big prize or someone who was being assigned to be a specific person in the village. But that's not the story at all, this story talks about a person being picked out from what they called the “Black Box” which is a very old wooden box that had people names written in it, so that day would be celebrated every year in this small village so when this day came they picked out a girl’s name called “Tessie”. She was arguing with Mr. Summers, the person

Having the conception of having an utopia is perhaps said that is only redeemable. On the other hand we have dystopia, which is the opposite of utopia. Use to analyze the reality of our own world, whether it went from bad to worst or better. Utopias and dystopias have similar characteristics of how fictional and fantasy it can be. When the idea of the two difference world came to mind it was set to think of how technology will help us have a perfect living condition since we would be in full control on how to demand the countries. However, when it was establish on how novel will portray the concept of a utopia and dystopia world it all leads on focusing on the psychology and emotions of the characters who live under such conditions. The character get to give the reader their concern about society and

Shirley Jacksons, “The Lottery” is about keeping lottery traditions. The lottery starts on June 2nd, in the village there were only about 300 people, so the whole lottery only took about two hours so they could start at 10 a.m. and end at noon. They each will draw a card from a bowl, kind of like a fish bowl shape, and whoever draws the card wilive.th the black marking on it wins the lottery, but you can’t say anything until the lottery is over.

A dystopia is an imaginary, imperfect place where those who dwell are faced with terrible circumstances. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley illustrates the concept of a dystopia. A utopia is an ideal place where everything is perfect, but in the novel, it becomes apparent that the author is trying to demonstrate the negative effects on a society when it attempts to become an unreachable utopian society. Brave New World is seen as a dystopia for many reasons, as citizens are deprived of freedom, programmed to be emotionless and under the control of a corrupt dictatorship. These points illustrate the irony of a society’s attempt to reach utopia by opposing ethics and morality; citizens are tragically distanced from paradise,

The lottery is a short story about a small town of villagers who once a year gather in the town square to carry out a tradition that is held every summer. Three important character in this story that I'm going to talk about are Mr. Joe Summers (the leader of The Lottery, Old Man Warner (The oldest man in town) and Tessie Hutchinson (the lucky winner of The Lottery).

The world in any society has two sides, Utopia which is defined as the perfect world and the peaceful life that is free from disasters. This word " Utopia " is derived from Greek roots by Sir Thomas More which means "a good place" (More 37). Merriam Webster defined Utopia as "an imaginary place, all life aspects are perfect, as the world suffers from nothing" (Webster 19). while Dystopia is defined as an imagined universe in which the unequal society controls the fancy of an ideal society which are maintained through technological, moral, corporate or totalitarian control " Beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds but we still have the power to change our own" (Condie 75). in which the genre challenges utopia’s