Similarities Between The Lottery And Antigone

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Unfair Rights and Scarring Sacrifices
Several generations have gone through some type of an unfair law that they had to obey, for example, in past generations African Americans were enslaved, but more presently the lack of rights the LGBT members have with marriage. This can relate to the stories “Antigone” and “The Lottery” because the characters in each story went through unfair tragedies. The laws in each of these stories are different, but actually very similar as shown by the end result. In the story “Antigone” a loyal sister is demanded to be put to death for the burial of her beloved brother. A law was made against her brother Polynice who had died battling against his very own brother and country. Antigone knew the consequences of disregarding the law, but since she was his sister she did not want to obey the law. She then proceeded to bury her brother anyways to show her loyalty and how much she loved him. Along with the law in “Antigone” being unfair, the character Tessie in the story “The Lottery” also found that it was unfair when her family ended up having the piece of paper with the black dot. Tessie had forgotten about the town lottery so she ended up being late. She claimed that her husband Bill “did not have enough time to select a piece of paper”. When the Hutchinson family, then …show more content…

In “Antigone” the deaths were chain reaction. Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice all took their lives on their own free will. Antigone did not want to be killed on King Creon’s order so she hung herself. Once Haemon saw his love, Antigone was dead, he then stabbed himself because he did not want to live life without her. After Haemon’s death, Eurydice his mother had cut her throat. In a completely opposite scene in “The Lottery” Tessie does not have any other choice but death. Not only does Tessie not have a choice, but she is killed in a major inhumane way such as being stoned to

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