In "The Simpsons," the creators inspired the episode based on the poem, "The Lottery." Although these two stories seem really different at first sight, their plot and main idea is really similar and its purpose is to critizice society throughout satire. When the creators of "The Simpsons" were working on the episode, they took as main problematic the ignorance of society due to the fact that most of the people are not well informed about what is really happening in the world they live in, and how it can affect minorities in a community, which might have never been noticed. In both stories, these events were made just because the community felt the need to keep a tradition, although it was inhumane and it was causing massive harm. In other words, the creators of the episode took the main idea of the short story, which later created an impact on society due to its power of attracting a really high amount of viewers.
As its mentioned before, "The Simpsons" critized society and generated a huge impact due to the fact that its a really popular TV show and it showed satire in a disimulated way due to the fact that viewers watched the episode as regular, and they also got a chance to look at a problematic. What this show did, was use the main plot of the simpsons and instead of talking about a lottery that killed people, they created and new problematic, which was the tradition of killing snakes in Whaking Day. What they both did was create the story in a really nice setting, which leaded the reader or viewer to confuse and question the ending. In the short story, the characters seemed that they felt in discomfort with the tradition but no one seemed to do anything in order to stop the tradition, while in the episode, some of the main characters were strictly opposed to this tradition along with many other citizens, which leaded to the ending of this old custom. In conclusion, the short story served as an inspiration to the episode, which was able to generate a way bigger impact due to the fact that it had more viewers from multiple ages.
As its mentioned before, "The Simpsons" critized society and generated a huge impact due to the fact that its a really popular TV show and it showed satire in a disimulated way due to the fact that viewers watched the episode as regular, and they also got a chance to look at a problematic. What this show did, was use the main plot of the simpsons and instead of talking about a lottery that killed people, they created and new problematic, which was the tradition of killing snakes in Whaking Day. What they both did was create the story in a really nice setting, which leaded the reader or viewer to confuse and question the ending. In the short story, the characters seemed that they felt in discomfort with the tradition but no one seemed to do anything in order to stop the tradition, while in the episode, some of the main characters were strictly opposed to this tradition along with many other citizens, which leaded to the ending of this old custom. In conclusion, the short story served as an inspiration to the episode, which was able to generate a way bigger impact due to the fact that it had more viewers from multiple ages.