Oppression In The Lottery And The Machine Stops

Oppression has been around as long as anyone can remember. Over the years many authors have written about oppression in one or another. Two examples of this are “The Lottery,” and The Machine Stops. Through the persecution of characters and suppression of emotion in the tone, Shirley Jackson and E.M. Forster both show the theme of oppression in their stories The Machine Stops and “The Lottery.” In these two stories, the characters being persecuted are both main characters.
In both of the stories “The Lottery,” and The Machine Stops one character is being persecuted. In The Machine Stops Kuno is the character being persecuted. He is one of the two main characters and is the son of Vashti. Kuno is persecuted by people because he is different. He is strong

According to Forster Vashti is to blame for that eerie tone in The Machine Stops. Forster writes, “‘Can you imagine anything more absurd?’ she cried to a friend. ‘A man who was my son believes that the Machine is stopping. It would be impious if it was not mad,’” (3:39-40). Once Kuno comes back from his adventure and is threatened with homelessness, Vashti no longer considers him her son. She blocks him out of her life. She even goes as far as calling him crazy. As for “The Lottery,” all the towns’ people except for Tessie are to blame for the tone. Jackson writes, “‘All right, folks.’ Mr. Summers said. ‘Let’s finish quickly,’” (Jackson). After the end of the lottery when Tessie is “the winner” the head of the lottery Mr. Summers says “‘Let’s finish this quickly,” (Jackson). By that Mr. Summers means hurry up and stone Tessie to death. He says this as if it is a fact. All calm and like nothing is wrong with that statement. No one in the whole town objects they all just grab stones and start throwing them at Tessie. When put together both this tone and the characters of these stories they show an overall theme of