In Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery, the black box stands as a powerful symbol of tradition, ritual, and societal complacency. It plays a central role in the village’s disturbing annual lottery, where one member is selected for a deadly fate, underscoring the blind adherence to traditions that permeates the story’s setting. The black box, […]
The critical theory of feminist criticism explores men’s and women’s social experiences, chores, interests, and politics with the aim of understanding gender inequality. Some of its major underlying concepts include patriarchy, sexual objectification, discrimination, and stereotypes. The theory serves as a critical tool for analyzing stories and literature from a feminists’ viewpoint. This section analyzes
Ethical relativism assumes that right or wrong is determined by the dogma of a particular society or culture. What is right in one society may, therefore, be wrong in another because the only ethical standard for judging the appropriateness of specific actions is the moral system of a discrete society. However, this thesis may pose