Essays on Jacksons Lottery: Dangers of Blind Obedience Exposed

Dangers of Blind Obedience Exposed in The Lottery to the highest degree of us obey every day without a thought. People follow company dress code, state and federal laws and the assumed rules of courtesy. Those who do disobey argon usually frowned upon or possibly even reprimanded. But has it even occurred to you that in some cases, disobedience may be the better course to choose? In her speech Group Minds, Doris Lessing discusses these dangers of obedience, which are demonstrated in Shirley Jacksons short story The Lottery. In The Lottery, the villagers portray Lessings observation that it is the hardest thing in the world to maintain an respective(prenominal) dissident opinion, as a member of a group (334). The villagers also show, in a rather dramatic fashion, how being a blind partner of a group can be dangerous. As Lessing points out the majority will continue to insist and after a period of exasperation the nonage will fall into line(334). This very sentiment is an enorm ous part of the inherent dangers of obeying a group. The group behavior in The Lottery w...