The Unlucky Winner
In the story “The Unlucky Winner” there are many characters involved. However, there are three that stand out the most. These characters are, Dobie Gillis, Colthilde Ellingboe, and Mr. Hambrick. Each have different ethics which determine if there actions are just or unjust. Dobie Gillis and Mr.Hambrick are both ethical, whereas Colthilde Ellingboe is unjust.
To start, Dobie Gillis was a freshman at the University of Minnesota. He was a young man at the annual Freshman Prom who had come across a fine young lady, which he later was head over heels for. Unfortunately, Dobie was gullible and easy to bribe which had affected him deeply. He was an ethical young man who always did his homework when it was given and studied when he needed to. However, once once he started dating Ms. Ellingboe, he had lost all his morals. For example, when he would get completed homework handed to him by her, he would point out that he was not learning anything. He did realize that he was cheating his way through college because of Ms. Ellingboe. Along with that, many times he would try cancelling plans with Ms. Ellingboe to study; however, she would always remind him that having a “well rounded out
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personality” was much more valuable than college education. Therefore, even though Dobie fell for Ms. Clothilde’s tricks, he did put a stop to it after he built up his courage. Secondly, the protagonist, Clothilde Ellingboe was also a freshman at the University of Minnesota.
However, unlike Mr. Gillis, Clothilde was wise, intelligent, and manipulative. She would talk Dobie into cheating his way through college in order to hang out with her everyday. She was controlling in many aspects. For example, every single day Clothilde would be the one to pick out activities to do and what time to do them. She never let Dobie have a choice as to what he prefered to do. She found sources for Dobie’s college work as well. Clothilde would make Dobie believe that having “a well rounded personality was far more important that doing well in college.” All in all, Clothilde Ellingboe was a very unjust, manipulative, and unethical character in the
story. Lastly, Mr. Hambrick was the English professor at the University of Minnesota. He was intelligent, easy to fool, yet always ethical. For example, many of the times he would give Dobie credit for the work he was not doing. This was because Dobie was getting work from Clothilde. Mr. Hambrick was very pleased with Mr.Gillis’s work, which he had copied off an old novel, that he submit it into a contest.
Jackson in her story, “The Lottery”, describes how society and villagers preserve the tradition of lottery without even knowing its origin. Hawthorne, in his story, “Young Goodman Brown” describes the presence of corruption and evil in the society. Both stories have common ideas such as corruption in our society, continuation of barbarous and unethical old traditions, and failure of people in handling those barbarous actions. Both stories have a common theme of evil and darkness but they are presented in different manners. This paper discusses similarities and differences in “The Lottery” and “Young Goodman Brown” by analyzing different literary elements. Jackson, in her story, questions beliefs of individuals, their actions, and blind faith towards old barbaric traditions by using an evil theme and symbolism. Hawthorne adopted a different approach to show presence of evil in our society by showing the inner struggle of the lead character.
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