A subtle aspect of Lu Xun's writing, running through several of his works of fiction, is his animalistic portrayal of some of his most well-known characters. Scraping away their humanity as he writes, Lu Xun depicts ...
In both Lu Xun's "The New Year's Sacrifice" (1924) and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948), a woman is made a sacrificial victim by her village community, one symbolically and one literally. Using the tw...