SPOILER WARNING: Murdoch did some prewriting for an essay on the juxtaposition between Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" & Sophocles' "Antigone".

The Lottery -

The character from The Lottery “Tessie” dies for the supposed greater good. She has her death justified via the repressive societies' cruel traditionalist's dogma. This story may be some sort of propagandistic material for moral rationalism or for figuring out stuff for yourself via your experiences instead of being reliant on your society for your moral & whatnot. My reasoning for such claim is that I believe Shirley Jackson opposed the draft during WWII; at a time when if you opposed such involuntary risk of death, twas social suicide; which, is sort of analogous to what happens in "The Lottery" with Tessie. Sadly, Tessie only comes to the realization that she wants to oppose her societies dogma when she was unlucky enough to be chosen for death.

Antigone -

The characters wanweird in "Antigone" comes from the consequences of the character's actions conflicting with one another. The end of this story was an negative result for all the characters in "Antigone" unlike that of the character in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" where the negative result only really applies to her. The notable moral of this story is the idea that one may have a desire to have god’s will, top of mind aboon that of a king or a nation-state if applied to modern times. A desire to hold  pride & or power is explicitly shown by the King wanting to punish the independent-thinking lady (besides the high power influence) who buried the putative traitors body against the will of the king and for god's supposed will that was in opposition of the King's will. The lady dies, but people are actually sad about it in this one. Unlike in "The Lottery" where Tessie's loved ones help with the stoning of Tessie for the supposed heavily influenced by poppycock ""greater good"".