The town follows a tradition that kills someone once a year. Everyone agrees that the tradition must be followed, simply because it's a tradition, that is until they themselves are chosen to die. The townspeople do not want to die, but they are unwilling to break from tradition.
She’s possibly trying to evoke pity, fear, a sense of injustice, or even make the reader feel a sort of sadness because you know that the person you are reading about is getting hurt emotionally. Something we individuals find despicable and inhumane. Also, threatening and menacing a person with hell fire in their last moments of living is pretty evil because God is a generous person who doesn’t cause grief and if the person believes such lies they will not only die unhappy but they will also become fearful to even die.
For the present purposes, our interest in the romantic poets is less for
the sake of their own convictions than for ascertaining the nature of
their influence on English society. In their critique of modern society
the Lake poets, in common with so many nineteenth-century critics,
tended to idealize the medieval period. The new industrialism they
believed carried with it a dehumanization, a loss of many values that
the Middle Ages had honored by preserving the religious heritage of
Europe.
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A comic strip from the lesson? I can re-edit my answer when you reply if you want.
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