The dystopian story is a kind of science fiction. It always takes the form of a “what if” society in which the author has pushed one or more social problems to an extreme condition. 'The Lottery' was written by Shirley Jackson and was first published in 1948. At that time the Second World War had just ended, it had discovered the cruelty and violence that was hidden in humanity 27 years after the Great War. Shirley Jackson highlighted and discussed humanity's treatment of violence in these types of stories. I will point out and discuss three different human natures and why it is important to think about them. Being human is an undeniable self-preservation to the extent of our life. A few billion years ago, our ancestors, Homo sapiens, massacred all other human species and made us the masters of this planet. As Charles Robert Darwin said, we are the “survival of the fittest”. Man is always willing to sacrifice others to save himself because all animals do it to survive. In "The Lottery", after Bill Hutchinson receives the paper with the dot on it, Tessie wants her daughters, who have married, to draw with their husbands, to increase her chances of living. At first Tessie really enjoyed the lottery. However, she only got up to protest: "It's not fair, it's not fair" because she was the one hit. Then it was clearly too late. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay But how could the other villagers pass up the opportunity to save themselves from the sacrifice? Then, they reminded Tessie “we all took the same chance.” Jackson gave her a view on human self-preservation in this text, that people would accept violence or other actions as long as they do not directly harm themselves. It is important to think about our humanity. It helps us to know ourselves better, even if sometimes human nature can be cruel and terrible. This dystopian story had also warned us about what would happen if we didn't have proper control over our self-preservation, and how terrible it could be. Our society has an unwritten rule that many against few or we can say minority is subordinate to majority. I think it's human nature to conform to the great flow. We feel safer when we are with more people. Therefore, sometimes people seem to forget to ask themselves: is the majority always the truth? In "The Lottery", the moment Tessie was "marked" as different, the villagers she had lived with for most of her life attacked her. There must be someone who didn't want to commit Tessie's destruction. Since they are the minority in that condition, if they stand out, they are very likely to be rejected by society. Along with encouragement from the other villagers, as Old Man Warner urges them saying "Come on, come on, everyone". Nobody wants to stay out of crime and violence. Jackson suggested that we pay attention to those traditions that continue only because everyone fears opposing the majority. He also advised us not to fear nonconformity, because it could push people to do immoral things. This is important because when it becomes a unified perception of society it could become another “Lottery”. In real life, Nazi Germany had used conformity to eliminate Jews because it was for the “goods” of the majority. These two points had led me to my final idea: are we inherently violent as part of human nature? We evolved from animals, that means we must’.