The Lottery
On a clear June morning the three hundred people of a small village gather in the square, the men talking tractors and taxes while the children stack stones. The black box is shabby, the ritual is half-forgotten, and every household comes up to draw a folded slip. The scapegoat mechanism laid bare.
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- parallels ↑ Oedipus Rex
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Closest analogues
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