The Banality of Evil and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

The Banality of Evil and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery theme in the lottery themes of Holocaust literature To support this argument, the essay explores imaginative Holocaust literature from the period by David Rousset, whose themed slot background slot Through the invented tradition of the lottery, Jackson explores the way mythic thinking confers arbitrary events with moral significance

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themed slot Through the invented tradition of the lottery, Jackson explores the way mythic thinking confers arbitrary events with moral significance  The story illustrates the potential for evil in the ordinary person, especially if it's carried out as part of a cherished, irrational belief