Shirley Jackson - The Lottery

The aims of this research is to discover about the author's world view in The Lottery short story. In this research the writer conduct the library research to find out the information from some books, which are related to this literary study. The writer also uses genetic structuralism approach and theory by Lucien Goldman. Working through the analysis, the results of the analysis are Jackson tries to describe about the world view in terms of religious sense towards the ritual or lottery inside the story through of small village ritual tradition as depicted in the small village that hosts brutal stoning in The Lottery story. Other world view from Jackson is the story was publishing in June 1948. In 1948, most of the world, the United States included, was still trying to come to terms with the staggering violence of World War II.This story satirizes a number of social issues, including the laws and practices traditions.

DLCV: Língua, Linguística & Literatura

The present text is an annotated review of the literature that surrounds the ideological phenomenon that stamped the controversial reception of American writer Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery. The accursed story's critical fortune is presented and discussed, at an introductory level, in order to shed light on the episode that beleaguers its publication in the celebrated literary magazine New Yorker in 1948. The intention is, through a critical-historiographic approach, to help readers understand the reasons and causes that have stirred such widespread public outrage, such profuse resentment and such awed curiosity towards this ill-fated short story and its obscure writer.

Lottery might be a reflection of the author's life. She had troubled with depression and identity crisis and was forced to leave her college.

The Lottery is an American short story written by Shirley Jackson. Published in 1948, June 26th, this short story presents ideology of a capitalistic society and gender stereotype. By definition, the capitalistic society is a social order in which private property rights and the free market serve as the basis of trade, distribution of goods, and development (Duane). Meanwhile, gender stereotype is over-generalizations about the characteristics of an entire group based on gender (Davis). Gender stereotype can be positive and negative. The forms of a capitalistic society and gender stereotype to women are what Shirley Jackson figured out through The Lottery.

Juni Khyat, 2023

Shirley Jackson is famous for her haunting works of horror and mystery. In her short story, The Lottery, the author introduces the readers to the people of a village who firmly and blindly believe in their brutal tradition. Irrespective of the changes and development that normally happen in any society, it is hard for the readers to believe and digest that the villagers in the story run such a gruesome lottery year after year. To our surprise and shock, no one questions the morality of the tradition instead whole-heartedly embrace and participate in the lottery to ensure the assumption of a bountiful harvest by sacrificing a randomly chosen one. Shirley Jackson beautifully and ironically portrays the preparation and commencement of the act of stoning someone to death as an incident of celebration based on tradition and blind faith. This paper explores on how blind faith and mob mentality play a significant role as a dominating power and a killing mechanism in the story paving way for violence and death.

When asked about the significance of her short story "The Lottery" in an interview for the San Francisco Chronicle, on July the 22nd 1948 , Shirley Jackson only remarked on the difficulties of answering such a question, adding that her sole intent was to set "a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present", in order to "shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives". From this stand on, two main exegetic viewpoints have dominated the cyclopean critical corpus that accompanies the story. On the one hand, there is the tendency to interpret the story as an overt critique of blind obedience to traditions, and by association, of social conformity in general. The other common stand is to analyze the mechanism of scapegoating and its relation to the discussion of whether it is the mechanism in itself that allows evil to unfold, or rather evil is already an inherent element of human nature.

A teacher's aid for introducing this deservedly famous story to students, including teaching some basic principles of good reading and interpretation. With a special focus on high school teachers, but applicable to many kinds of classrooms, including community colleges, liberal arts colleges and universities, etc. This lesson plan was prepared by my Swarthmore College student Lauren Hee Won Chung, in consultation with me.

NOTION, 2019

Keywords perlocutionary act the lottery short story culture of horror society Building a new society can be implemented through cutting the chain of a certain generation. Then, brainwash to younger one will be the powerful weapon to change the face of the society by the authority. This study analyzes the use of perlocutionary acts used by characters in Sirley Jackson's short story, The Lottery, that tells the redaers about the culture of horror expressed by the characters to reshape the face of the society. The descriptive qualitative method was used to investigate the essence of the culture of horror through perlocutionary acts. Besides, the contextual method was also applied to support the meaning of the culture of horror in the form of narration in the short story. The result of this study is that the perlocutionary acts used have 4 out of 5 parts according to the speaker's expression, namely: a) convincing, b) inviting, c) blocking, d) surprising. Then the effects of this perlocutionary act can create a horror effect based on the context, culture, and background of the story.

International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2018

Nowhere is American author Shirley Jackson’s (1916-1965) social and political criticism is so intense than it is in her seminal fictional masterpiece “The Lottery”. Jackson severely denounces injustice through her emphasis on a bizarre social custom in a small American town, in which the winner of the lottery, untraditionally, receives a fatal prize. The readers are left puzzled at the end of the story as Tessie Hutchinson, the unfortunate female winner, is stoned to death by the members of her community, and even by her family. This study aims at investigating the author’s social and political implications that lie behind the story, taking into account the historical era in which the story was published (the aftermath of the bloody World War II) and the fact that the victim is a woman who is silenced and forced to follow the tradition of the lottery. The paper mainly focuses on the writer’s interest in human rights issues, which can be violated even in civilized communities, like t...

Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics

Ideology is sometimes hidden away, especially in language, since language is the closest aspect of human, for it is used every day. One of the examples is covert ideology within the short story. This is why critical discourse analysis is needed to uncover this kind of thing. The short story scrutinized in this research is Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. In order not to merely reveal an assumption, this research combines the critical discourse analysis theory by Fairclough, specifically termed Dialectical-Relational approach, as the philosophical theory with Appraisal study as the linguistic theory. All of the sentences and clauses in the story are the data of the research. The data, then, are close read for more accurate analysis. It is observed that the ideologies concealed by the text are social domination and marginalization through tradition. However, those social wrongs are hard to abolish, since they are even desired by the society; the tradition is believed to bring prosperity...