The Lottery Marxist Analysis

“The Lottery,” is a tradition that happen for a small village of people every year on the 27th of June, where they is a drawing for each head of the household for every family. The drawing takes place outside in an empty field. Each head of the house will pull from a black box, whoever pull the ticket with the black dot on it have to sacrifice someone from their family. The sacrifice that someone must take every year in order to receive a good harvest. The whole idea of the lottery is a Marxist Criticism, because of the way the beliefs are about the whole sacrificing for the harvest. As Amy A. Griffin, a writer from Schreiner College illustrates, “Many ancient cultures believed that growing crops represented the life cycle, beginning with what one associates with the end-death. Seed buried, apparently without hope of germination, represent death” (44). Anyone that receive the black dot from the lottery can be killed because of the ticket that they pulled. The black box as an old box that means a lot to the villagers. Mr. Summers think about replacing the

Could be a sign that the lottery is against her belief. In the . "Jackson's The Lottery," written by Nathan Cervo, a writer from Franklin Pierce College he states, “It is clear that Mrs. Hutchinson, whose “lot” it is to be stoned to death, is not a scapegoat figure. She is a parodic Christ-figure, slain to appease a demonic entity that is the personification” (187). Both of the text include Psychoanalytic Criticism, because one side is saying she against the lottery, and an Christian, and the other side shows where Tessie think it’s just any fair. Also that part is Feminism Criticism, because at the end of the passage all the attention is on Mrs. Hutchinson as she is singled out at the end to be stoned to death as the passage illustrates, “Its Tessie,” Mr. Summers said….. “Show us her paper, Bill”