The Lottery: Blindly Flowing Traditions
The Lottery: Blindly Flowing Traditions
There have been hundreds of social issues through the years that have grabbed the attention of the American public, but one that is still relevant today is the social issue of blindly following tradition. When someone follows tradition they are forgetting all the moral aspects of the situation and just doing the act because it has been done for years because it is a tradition. These traditions make the people participating it closer or so they say. But do they truly realize what they are doing is harmful and unethical? In the story the Lottery, the towns’ people every year have a town lottery where in the end, the winner or loser is stoned to death by the rest of the town. The issue of blindly following tradition is still relevant today with sororities and fraternities that do ridiculous rituals in order to gain admittance to the house. Through all these stories, the general public needs to figure something out to stop all the unethical situations occurring just because it is what everyone else does. Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect a person or many members of a society and are considered to be problems or controversies related to moral values. Social issues affect everyone and every culture in different ways but somehow always relate to something wrong with society. Blindly following tradition is an important social issue because hundreds of years ago when everyone lived in small towns, these small towns made up traditions or rituals that the town has followed ever since. Whether the ritual is an annual game or parade or whether it is stoning someone to death like in The Lottery. Traditions seem to be passed down from generation to generation, until the act just seems to make sense to everyone. Even if it is killing someone just for the sake of killing them which is ethically and legally wrong. The short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a about a small town, that for
There have been hundreds of social issues through the years that have grabbed the attention of the American public, but one that is still relevant today is the social issue of blindly following tradition. When someone follows tradition they are forgetting all the moral aspects of the situation and just doing the act because it has been done for years because it is a tradition. These traditions make the people participating it closer or so they say. But do they truly realize what they are doing is harmful and unethical? In the story the Lottery, the towns’ people every year have a town lottery where in the end, the winner or loser is stoned to death by the rest of the town. The issue of blindly following tradition is still relevant today with sororities and fraternities that do ridiculous rituals in order to gain admittance to the house. Through all these stories, the general public needs to figure something out to stop all the unethical situations occurring just because it is what everyone else does. Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affect a person or many members of a society and are considered to be problems or controversies related to moral values. Social issues affect everyone and every culture in different ways but somehow always relate to something wrong with society. Blindly following tradition is an important social issue because hundreds of years ago when everyone lived in small towns, these small towns made up traditions or rituals that the town has followed ever since. Whether the ritual is an annual game or parade or whether it is stoning someone to death like in The Lottery. Traditions seem to be passed down from generation to generation, until the act just seems to make sense to everyone. Even if it is killing someone just for the sake of killing them which is ethically and legally wrong. The short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a about a small town, that for