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The Pressures of Society

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Oct. 12, 2012 Write 3 The Pressures of Society In the world today, society has a great control over the social order of life and can pressure people into unwelcome circumstances. In fact, fiction authors, such as Kate Chopin and Shirley Jackson, replicate society pressures in their short stories. This pressure for their characters, Tessie Hutchinson from ?The Lottery? and Desiree Aubigny from ?Desiree?s Baby,? leads to death. These two stories can be compared by focusing on the demands of society, the reaction of the main characters, and the outcome of the conflict.

The Lottery Questions

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The Lottery 1. What is the setting of the story? What important details are not specified? The setting of the story is a location that is in a relatively isolated village, in which we have no knowledge of. The most important details that are omitted from the setting are the village's location, its name, and its historical background. 2. How would you characterize the tone of the story? The story beings very conventionally, the people live in a pastoral village and are quite united. It employs a sense of realism. Further on the tone shifts from realistic to symbolic with the coming of the ritual. Quickly the carefree and harmless attitudes shift into that of savagery and destruction, involving a traditional with a murderous nature, something we would not expect to occur.
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