The lottery focused on a variety of themes including the dark side of human nature, the subjugation of woman, the danger of ritualized behavior, and the potential for cruelty when the individual submits to the tyranny of their congregation. The story is about a satanic event that people from a small village annually offered. The game consisted in families draw slips of paper from a ballot box until housewife Tessie Hutchinson receives a slip with a black mark on it. She was stoned to death by members of her village despite her protest about the unfairness of the drawing as the ritual dictates. The setting of the story is in an apparently civilized and peaceful society. Horrifying acts of violence can take place anywhere and they can be committed by the most ordinary people. The author suggested the psychology behind mass cruelty by a community whose citizens refuse to stand as individuals.
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