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Shirley Jackson Savageness

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Society’s savageness began long time by itself. Violence and disclosures are made for the comfort of the culprit and harm the victim. Human savageness made a major upheaval in the religion, relationships, and family. Each has a different inclination towards the capability of the damages outcome that a human can do. Individuals are savages by default, the thoughts and actions each made are the cause of brutal effect of the doings. Certainly it is a just to foresee the brute of the people that surrounds and live among for it is the security that each are concerned. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the author implied the awareness of the community where individuals harm their own without even the perception of the action being done. The narrative flows with the bond of the clique which causes peer pressure and exclusion of one person at the end. For instance, “...she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her… A stone hit her on the side of the head.” The exertion that the community has made was being done for several years hence, it is vicious …show more content…

First impressions to characters never lasts, Mary being the desired wife who unconditionally loves her husband, on the other hand, ironically what readers can foreshadow did not seemed to be Mrs. Maloney to be the antagonist of the whole situation. Based on the story, “...enjoying his company.. She loved the warmth that came out of him when they were together alone”. Mary Maloney depicts the woman who is out of his husband’s league. This is a representation of situational irony because “she loved” him and in the end, she ended up murdering her husband. Thus, Roald Dahl indicates savageness through the people that encompass and provide the love each wants hence, they can also be the one that can truly harm and hurt from

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