Essay on Shirley Jacksons The Lottery - Effective Use of Character Na

Effective Use of Character Names in The Lottery The honey oil curse of mankind, --folly and ignorance (Shakespeare). Were he alive, William Shakespeare might fully endorse Shirley capital of Mississippis ideas as presented in The Lottery. The author, Jackson, very distinctly uses symbolic names for her characters to plant the ignorance of the sacrificial lottery, which the small village h sometime(a)s year after year. These sacrifices, which used to be held to appease the god of harvest-home, have grown meaningless in their culture. Jackson uses the characters not only to visualize the story for the reader, but excessively each(prenominal) one has a meaning, which adds to the ultimate theme. One of the leaders and MOST in-chief(postnominal) MEN of the town is Mr. Summers. Summer is a date of the year. It is the season of growing, the season of life. His name represents partly the old pagan fertility ritual because the harvest that is being sacrificed to is being grown in th e summer. This is supposedly, according to Old musical composition Warner, what the lottery held each year was all about. But, in this case, the harvest should be fine because the setting of the story tells us that the flowers were blossoming profusely and the pip was richly green (74). Mr. Summers did m all things to slowly wean the old tradition, the old harshness, out of the ordeal. He had the wooden chips replaced with more convenient slips of paper. He besides spoke frequently...about making a immature box (75), so, therefore, he also represented new ideas as well as old. The new ideas that the close-minded village people would not accept. If given the chance, Mr. Summers would have more than likely accepted and backed the motion to cease the lottery and stop the sacrifice. thus far though... ...haracters names to symbolize meanings that she could not get across to the reader any other way. She showed how Mr. Graves sacrificial killing and Old Man Warners strong traditio n was too much of a history for Mr. Summers new ideas and young Watsons realizations. Mrs. Hutchinson still got her hand in the box and the rock up the side of her head. I AM NOT SURE HOW, only when YOU CAUSED ME TO LAUGH AT SUCH A SOLOMN STORY. YOU DID A VERY nigh JOB RESEARCHING YOUR TOPIC AND CITING YOUR SOURCES. BE CAREFUL NOT TO USE abbreviation AND AVOID SLANG TERMS. I THOUGHT YOUR CONCLUSION WAS A short ABRUPT, BUT IT WAS NOT BAD. OVERALL THIS WAS A VERY GOOD written report AND I ENJOYED READING IT. Works CitedJackson, Shirley. The Lottery. 1949 Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. sixth ed. New York HarperCollins, 1995.