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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts the themes of societal consciousness in Jackson's The Lottery, and Le Guin's One's who Walk Away from Omelas. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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gender, offer the reader a brief glimpse into who mankind really is, and what he might become. This is the case in Shirley Jacksons story, The Lottery, and Ursula Le
Guins story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Within the words of both stories one is forced to ask oneself the question of what amount of suffering is acceptable,
under what circumstances does one take action against ones fellow man, and lastly, what is mankinds responsibility toward his fellow man? In this bizarre short story, Jackson weaves a tale
of a town that routinely holds a lottery. The winner of the lottery is systematically stoned by the whole village. The black box has been around for ages, and each
year the adults draw a slip from it. The black dot on the slip of paper identifies the lucky winner of the lottery, the person who will not have any
worries ever again. This story, then, is not the insanity of an individual, but of a complete society who has allowed itself to forget to question those things that are
unethical. None of the townsfolk can remember when the lottery started, how it began or what it supposedly is for. Yet they continue to do it because they have done
it that way for ages. Madness is not only contagious; it is bred into the people of the village. The black box, then, represents unexamined tradition, a tradition that needs
to be discarded. They seem to believe, then, that the sacrificing of one person, to act as a scapegoat, is an acceptable loss. No one has paused to consider the
ramifications of their continued actions. It is doubtful that anyone in the village will stand up to those who continue to support the Lottery simply because it is a societal
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