The Lottery Folklore, Symbolism & Ritual

Banality of Evil The term the banality of evil would not have been known to Shirley Jackson; it was introduced in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in

9 quotes from The Lottery: 'Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones '

theme park tickets of fortune slot Shirley Jackson received over 300 letters People are not all good or all evil but a mixture of both Other ideasthemes can be applied to “The Lottery”

theme of the lottery Written in the aftermath of World War II and during a period of social conformity in the United States, “The Lottery” critiques the blind acceptance of social