Abstract

DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY IN SHIRLEY JACKSONS -THE LOTTERY

May Mohammed Baqer Twayej (Ph D), Mays Salman Turkie

Volume: 9 Issue: 1 2019

Abstract:

As literature reflects life and social issues, the development in social, political and economical lives are intentionally or unknowingly combined with the literary works of writers. Utopian and dystopian fiction seizes up the forces of its age, they often defined as the emotional climax of the society, utopia channels individual's hope while dystopia reveals his fears and anxiety, it also portraits the political clashes and social tensions through the writer's vision. Shirley Jackson lived in the mid of all these circumstances, she created a dystopian society which it is the same of our reality portraying the human's evil and cruelty especially when he in institutionalized. "The Lottery" attests the culture and traditions of American society, highlighting the political and ideological concept in the Post war era.

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