What does a neutral do?
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To use the plumbing analogy, the neutral wire is your drain, where the electricity flows out of your device (and then out of the house) to the sewer (for electricity it’s the power station). The hot is like the faucet, which is pumping the electricity into your device. Your device is like the sink basin. Ground is not as well represented by the analogy but the purpose of it is kind of like the overflow drain opening in the sink if it was actually a completely different drainpipe, and it prevents the sink from overflowing and then filling the room past your head, thus protecting you from drowning.
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