A Representative and a Scapegoat: Analysis of Tessie Hutchinson in The Lottery
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| Title | A Representative and a Scapegoat: Analysis of Tessie Hutchinson in The Lottery |
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| Abstract | The study is an analysis of the character Tessie Hutchinson in American writer Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery. The duality in Tessie’s character represents the psychological conditions of all the participants in the lottery; while at the same time, having unfortunately won the lottery, Mrs. Hutchingson serves in the story as a victim, a scapegoat of the brutal primitive ceremony. In Tessie Hutchinson, the primitive nature of selfish and indifferent human beings is vividly revealed, which in term deserves much reflection even up to these days. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2012-05-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 2, No 5 (2012) |
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