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Hi, I am looking for someone to write an article on the obedience to authority Paper must be at least 500 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

Hi, I am looking for someone to write an article on the obedience to authority Paper must be at least 500 words. Please, no plagiarized work! Obedience to Authority and How It is Evil

Two short stories tend to shock people with their endings and implications: Jackson's “The Lottery” and LeGuin's “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas.” These stories underlie the darkness present in humanity, a darkness that has been too “old” to be completely removed. This essay analyzes how following authority produces evil. Obedience to authority results in evil in the stories “The Lottery” and “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas,” because of appearance of convention, cowardice, and ordinariness of violence.

Convention and law are common sources of authority, which many people can follow mindlessly, however evil their outcomes may be. In “The Lottery,” Old Man Warner stresses that the lottery cannot be removed, simply because it has always been done: “There's always been a lottery” (Jackson). Furthermore, he emphasizes the saying: “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (Jackson). It does not matter if this ritual results to the suffering of one person, since the society focuses on its “positive” outcomes. In "The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas,” people believe that in order to maintain the joy and wealth of Omelas, they have to preserve a “child's abominable misery” (LeGuin). Omelas has made it a law to never let the child out, because it will result to the loss of “prosperity and beauty and delight” of Omelas (LeGuin). Some residents feel the injustice of this law, but the majority follows its law nonetheless.

Simply obeying authority is a form of cowardice, which results to evil too. Some people in “The Lottery” consider scrapping this tradition, but they do so in “suggestive” tones. Mrs. Adams says: “Some places have already quit lotteries” (Jackson). No one among the people, nevertheless, boldly calls for the eradication of this bloody and senseless ritual. They all participate, even when they feel uncomfortable about it. For instance, the niceties are all forced, such as when Mr. Summers and Mr.

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