The study is an analysis of the character Tessie Hutchinson in American writer Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery. The duality in Tessie’s character represents the psychological conditions of all the participants in the lottery; while at the same time, having unfortunately won the lottery, Mrs. Hutchingson serves in the story as a victim, a scapegoat of the brutal primitive ceremony. In ...

The duality between "niche" and "biotope" proposed by G. Evelyn Hutchinson provides a powerful way to conceptualize and analyze biogeographical distributions in relation to spatial environmental patterns. Both Joseph Grinnell and Charles Elton had attributed niches to environments. Attributing niches, instead, to species, allowed Hutchinson's key innovation: the formal severing of physical plac...