SITI AISYAH BINTI JASNI 44050 The Lottery The Lottery is use for discovering absurdities in everyday life

and for examines humanity capacity for evil within the familiar American setting. The Lottery was written by Shirley Jackson and that story portrays an "average" American village with "average" citizens involve in a deadly ritual, which the annual selection of a sacrificial victim by using a public lottery, and does so quite deceitfully, not until at the end of the story we suspect that the "winner" will be stoned to death by the rest of the villagers. The variety of themes in this story including the dark sides of human nature and behaviour, danger that ritualized behaviour and potential for cruelty when individuals submits to mass wills. In that story along, the townspeople need for scapegoat, a figure which it can project its most undesirable qualities and which can be destroyed in a ritually involving sacrifice. The townspeople believe that if one people take blames of others eventually their sins will be cleared and they did this ritual to get better crops on that year. This ritual only held annually on the June 27th. The townspeople represent contemporary Western society which should possess good social behaviour, religious and bans against that annual event. By describing the top of the social ladder, the village's most powerful man, Mr Summers, have his own coal factory and we can see it when someone said that the black box that is used for the lottery was put in Mr Summers coal factory. Next in line is Mr Graves, the village's second most powerful government official which is its postmaster where he stood beside Mr Summer when the lottery begins. These two most powerful men also in position of administer in lottery. To explain further, lottery's rules of participation reflect and codify a rigid social hierarchy based upon an inequitable social division of labour. Second, everyone participates in that lottery understands consciously that the outcome is pure chance gives it a certain "democratic" aura that conceals its first ordering function. Third, the villagers believe instinctively that if they are commitment to a work ethic, it will grant them some magical immunity from being selected. Fourth, this work ethic prevents them from understanding that the lottery's actual function is not to increase the value of crops in that village as such but to emphasize biased social separation of labour. Finally, after working through these points, it will be easier to explain why Jackson choose Tessie Hutchinson as the lottery's scapegoat reveals the lottery because to be fair, the scapegoat is going to be an ideological mechanism which serves to defuse the average villager's deep, incoherent dissatisfaction with the social order in which he lives by channelling it into anger directed at the victims of that social order. It is re-enacted year after year, then, not because it is just a mere "tradition," but because it serves the tyrannical ideological function of purging the social body of all resistance so that business (capitalism) can go on as usual and the Summers and the Graves can remain on the top hierarchy. This hierarchy in that village is designate that who will be the first person to withdraw the lottery on the first and second. Before the lottery begins, the lists are (chosen personally by Jo Summer) made up of head of the families (who choose in the first round), and members of each household in each family will be the last. Power in the village, then, is exclusively consolidated into the hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised. The Lottery is mainly about fulfilling its tradition, justifies and masks the brutality just to tell the people who are watching it about the tale of man's instinctive corruption.