The readings were very confusing. The idea of labyrinth is suppose to be very confusing, therefore I think the author did a great job in making his short stories into a labyrinth for people's mental.
Between the two short stories I was able to understand more from the first short story, the "Circular Ruins." The labyrinth is the story is the lives of a man created in other men's dream. The idea is 'circular' in a way that a man creates a man in his dream and the created man tries to create another man in his dream. The cycle is eternal and there is the labyrinth in the story. Also the cycle of the man dreaming again and again over and over was another slump. In addition his non seizing passion to create a man was another factor close labyrinth in a way that he cannot let the idea go but stuck in the goal until he make it.
The second story I read was "The Lottery in Babylon." I later found out that I read the wrong story. Still I read it so I will proceed on writing the response. This story was more about human nature and how it is easily trapped into certain labyrinths. The lottery itself is very addictive and hard to step out, and when there are other people who keep throw in psychological traps it is even harder for poor people to exit. The speaker successfully describe how people's mind work when certain things happen to them during the lottery and how they entangle their lives.
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