Robert’s Blogs

The Lottery a gruesome display of human sacrifice written by Jackson has a couple of archetypes that were taken from previous literature. The first example of an archetype is old Mr. Watson being a stereotypical old man who strongly believes in tradition and things ain’t what they used to be. Next there is a  archetypefor women in general, which is that they all wear dresses and love to gossip. Then most importantly Mrs. Hutchinson was the proverbial scapegoat, as in she was ultimately sacrificed to help the crops grow greener. Then I also saw that the two characters that were in charge of the lottery were named Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves. This meaning that the decision of life and death were up to two men with names having a connotation for life (summer) and death (graves).