"The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant effectively employs a very dreary mood, despondent character and a surprise ending to develop the idea that when an individual is overcome by greed, that person has an excessive desire to obtain material wealth to feel self sustained. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is about a girl who lives a poor and unfortunate life. She dreams of living in a high class society with many riches and jewels. She sees herself as something important and a person that everyone should respect as a valuable person. The only way Mathilde Loisel can be satisfied with herself and be content is by having expensive objects in her possession. Unfortunately for her she does not have the opportunity or the availability to buy luxurious items for self and becomes frustrated. Without the things that she desires she can not feel happy about how she is living and can not appreciate what she has. Her strong need for the expensive things makes her sad and sorrowful because she lives a normal life with her husband. Attending to typical housewife duties like cooking and cleaning, when she rather be wearing lavish clothes and fancy jewelry. With all the basic needs are are necessary to life a comfortable life. What she desire and hopes for is impractical. Knowing that she can never obtain the wealthy life she begins to feel sorrowful and sadden by that. Her greed for expensive items has become apart of her daily life and it is something that she can't easily change. With her vital need for these items it is a critical aspect in her because without those things she desires she can never be happy and satisfied with her life. Mathilde Loisel will never experience what is like to not have to depend on a physical object to... ... middle of paper ... ...tion we will receive our desired result. People only do actions to satisfy there crave and to get a certain outcome out of it that comes after doing that action. Some people's outcomes result in a selfish and cruel act, but the only reason that person is taking that act is because they crave for the outcome of doing that action. On the other hand some actions of greed can lead to good results, like if a person's car's battery died on the side of the road. Another person will feel the desire to help the unfortunate person to make themselves feel like they did a good deed and leave them with a good feeling and that person is doing a act of greed. So greed can be good and bad, but with Mathilde Loisel her desire was extremely excessive and it portrayed an important point that if you can find happiness by yourself you will need other things or people to make you happy.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mathilde loisel's greed for expensive items is a critical aspect in her life, since she can't easily change it. many people are like her who need to have what they want to feel full-filled.
- Opines that the only person that can make a person happy is themselves because all emotions are made and changed inside their own brain. greed is hard to break because it is in relation to emotions and delight.
- Analyzes how mathilde loisel has a disproportionate desire for money, wealth, and social status. she seeks something that can provide her comfort and make her satisfied with her life.
- Analyzes how people's actions are a representation of their greed. some actions result in selfish and cruel acts, while others lead to good results.
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant uses a dreary mood, despondent character, and surprise ending to develop the idea that when an individual is overcome by greed, that person has an excessive desire to obtain material wealth to feel self sustained.
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- Analyzes how mathilde loisel is created by misplacing priorities and self-absorption in guy de maupassant's "the necklace". material riches are the only category in which she believes she is inadequate to other women.
- Analyzes how mathilde's dissatisfaction with her middle-class life is described as if she had gone through bankruptcy. she misses the love and care her husband gives her.
- Analyzes how mathilde's husband tries to please her with an invitation to a first-class event, but she is not satisfied with what she has and continues to acquire.
- Analyzes how maupassent's comparison of mathilde’s disposition to bankruptcy becomes an ironic twist, as her selfishness initiates ten years of hard work to just get by.
- Analyzes how mathilde's character is not able to grow because she stubbornly holds onto her dissatisfied disposition and resentment towards others. she grows only in bitterness, which does not count as character growth.
728 wordsRead More - Characteristics Of Mathidle In Guy De Maupassant's The Necklaceanalytical essayIn Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace,” Mathidle is unhappy with the life she currently has. Furthermore, Mathidle is always striving to be like her “rich” friends. Even though Mathidle’s husband tries extremely hard to please Mathidle, Mathidle is always unsatisfied with her materialistic wealth in the beginning of her life. Likewise, Mathidle is an object-oriented idealist who momentarily escapes reality only to experience a tragic loss and eventually finds happiness through her journey.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mathidle in guy de maupassant's "the necklace" is unhappy with her life and striving to be like her "rich" friends.
- Analyzes how mathidle's longing for a wealthy lifestyle shows her disappointment with her less fortunate husband.
- Analyzes how mathidle escapes reality and encounters an unfortunate loss. de maupassant reveals more of her passion for wealth and living this type of lifestyle.
- Analyzes how mathidle finds happiness within her authentic life and learns valuable life lessons. she lets go of her dreams to be in a higher social class and accepts who she really is.
- Analyzes how mathidle, the protagonist in guy de maupassant's "the necklace," cannot find joy in the humble life she lives as a clerk’s wife.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mathidle in guy de maupassant's "the necklace" is unhappy with her life and striving to be like her "rich" friends.
- Analyzes how mathidle's longing for a wealthy lifestyle is one of the first characteristics readers see of her.
- Analyzes how mathidle escapes reality and over comes an unfortunate defeat. she danced with intoxication, with passion, made drunk by pleasure, forgetting all, in the triumph of her beauty.
- Analyzes how mathidle finds happiness within her authentic life and not just her fantasy. she lets go of her dreams to be in a higher social class and accepts who she really is.
- Analyzes how mathidle, the protagonist in guy de maupassant's "the necklace," cannot find joy in the humble life she lives as a clerk’s wife.
1028 wordsRead More - Maupassant’s The Necklaceanalytical essayMathilde Loisel lived the life of a painfully distressed woman, who always believed herself worthy of living in the upper class. Although Mathilde was born into the average middle class family, she spent her time daydreaming of her destiny for more in life... especially when it came to her financial status. Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, tells a tale of a vain, narcissistic housewife who longed for the aristocratic lifestyle that she believed she was creditable for. In describing Mathilde’s self-serving, unappreciative, broken and fake human behaviors, de Maupassant incorporates the tragic irony that ultimately concludes in ruining her.
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- Analyzes how mathilde loisel lived the life of a painfully distressed woman, who always believed herself worthy of living in the upper class. guy de maupassant's short story, "the necklace", tells her self-serving, unappreciative, broken, and fake human behaviors.
- Analyzes how mathilde lives in an illusive world where her desires do not meet up to the reality of her life. she yearns for the status of being upper class, and believes that her beauty and charm are worthy of much more.
- Analyzes how mathilde proves her cheated personality by looking down on the average life she has, and only looking up to the luxurious lifestyle of the wealthy.
- Analyzes how mathilde is forced to learn that the power of material items may be her desired interest, but cannot afford to let her craving for wealth take control of her life.
- Analyzes how mathilde's story of desire and hope for wealth portrayed her self-serving, unappreciative, broken and fake human behaviors to her husband and to society.
- Analyzes how willa cather's "paul’s case" depicts the fatal progression of deliberate seclusion that presents the unhappiness of a young man who desires for wealth.
- Analyzes how cather expresses paul's anger and resentment through descriptions of his surroundings and his neighborhood. he longs for the abstract world of upper class that he is surrounded by at the theatre.
- Analyzes how paul is stuck in a fantasy land where he views cordelia street as poverty when in reality the residents of his neighborhood are hardworking, diligent people who are successfully providing for their families.
- Analyzes how paul's job as an usher at carnegie hall allows him to indulge even further into his obsession with money. he finds himself lost in the theatre, music, and paintings.
- Analyzes how the closely told third-person narration begins by introducing the reader to the exterior world's feelings towards paul, establishing a first conception of his exclusion from his surrounding society.
- Analyzes how may have been discluded in school or from his friends/family to separate him so far from society, but as the short story continues it becomes more visible that he views himself in a completely different environment.
- Analyzes how willa cather weaves an interesting and enlightening twist of the point of view by carefully weaving a deep character whose understanding is extremely complex.
- Analyzes how the characters of mathilde and paul share the human behaviors of an unappreciated and broken lifestyle.
1604 wordsRead More - Realism In Guy De Maupassant's 'The Necklace'analytical essayGuy de Maupassant is a realist whose claim to fame is the style in which he conveys political and socioeconomic themes in his literary publications. He achieves his writing style by putting small unfortunate life events under a spotlight. His literary performance is described in his biography from Cambridge, the writer says “He exposes with piercing clarity the small tragedies and pathetic incidents of everyday life, taking a clear-sighted though pessimistic view of humanity” (Halsey, par. 1). Guy de Maupassant’s story The Necklace is a great representation of the style he uses. In The Necklace the main character Mathilde Loisel a beautiful but impoverished woman married to a clerk is in conflict with her lack of wealth and desire to acquire
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- Analyzes how guy de maupassant uses visual imagery to support the overall theme of the story.
- Analyzes how the imagery used in the necklace foreshadows and constructs the plot and suspense required to convey the theme of the story.
- Analyzes how the theme of the necklace is directly comparable to une vie, and the use of socioeconomic influences is essential to the plot.
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant uses imagery, a suspenseful buildup of irony, and realism to successfully convey the overall theme of the necklace.
- Describes guy de maupassant as a realist who conveys political and socioeconomic themes in his literary publications. he incorporates realism to provide context and sense of reality to stabilize the ironic and suspenseful plot.
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant's realistic approach is common in many of his writings. the theme of une vie is described in his biography.
1364 wordsRead More - Comparing the Female Characters in The Necklace and Recitatifanalytical essayIn Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" and Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," materialism and the desire to be envied are vital ingredients in the themes of the stories. Both authors enhance their themes through the manipulation of plot and the use of women as their central characters. Maupassant and Morrison prove the notion that women are effective characters in depicting themes that deal with the social issue of craving material wealth.
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- Analyzes how guy de maupassant and toni morrison's "the necklace" and "recitatif" emphasize materialism and the desire to be envied. both authors prove that women are effective characters in depicting the social issue of craving material wealth.
- Analyzes how the narrator in "the necklace" reflects a disapproving opinion of mathilde and her concern for the way others view her.
- Analyzes how the narrator of "recitatif" doesn't expose his attitude toward roberta as obviously as he does in "the necklace."
- Analyzes how the narrators convey the themes of the stories through their attitudes and develop these themes through the manipulation of plot. the theme of "the necklace" deals with the universal desire to be envied.
- Analyzes how "recitatif" addresses a universal preoccupation with materialistic longings and is shown through roberta's tendencies to flaunt her possessions to her friend.
- Analyzes how maupassant and morrison depict these themes by choosing women as the main characters.
- Analyzes how maupassant and morrison convey their themes of social acceptance and materialistic longings through narrators' attitudes and develop these themes through the manipulation of plot.
878 wordsRead More - The Necklace Rhetorical Analysisanalytical essayIn ‘The Necklace’, a women becomes bored with her own life and covets the life of the wealthy. When she is given the chance to socialize with other people, she feels like she doesn’t fit in. She borrowed a piece of jewelry from her wealthy friend. She chooses a beautiful diamond necklace. She ended up losing the expensive jewelry. The woman worked for 10 years before she found out that the ring was a fake.
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- Analyzes how a woman becomes bored with her own life and covets the life of the wealthy. when she is given the chance to socialize with other people, she feels like she doesn't fit in.
107 wordsRead More - The Necklace Short Story Essayanalytical essayGuy de Maupassant uses three literary elements to devise the theme in “The Necklace” that objects can disappoint and trick people just by their appearance. Throughout the story it is highly noted that Madame Loisel wants to be in the upper-class and own expensive things. If she would appreciate her life as a middle-class woman she would learn to live her life in positivity and enjoy everything she has.
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- Analyzes how guy de maupassant develops his theme that objects can have a perceivable power in his short story "the necklace."
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant uses irony to provide a sense of suspense and to make the story moreinteresting. madame loisel mistakenly thought the costume jewelry necklace was an expensive diamond necklace.
- Analyzes how shirley jackson used irony to show that mme loisel wanted what she could not have and paid attention to the things nobody really cared about.
- Analyzes how symbolism is used in the story to signify how little things can play such a large role in someone's life.
- Analyzes how mathilde's husband sacrificed the money he was saving to buy his wife a dress because she wanted to look pretty at the party. mme loisel wanted high-class things that wealthy people owned.
- Analyzes how characterization is used to show the characters' personalities and how they change in the story.
- Analyzes how characterization is used to describe other characters in the story. madame forestier wanted to help madame loisel look her best at the high-end party, so she let her borrow any jewelry.
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant uses three literary elements to devise the theme in "the necklace" that objects can disappoint and trick people just by their appearance. madame loisel wants to be in the upper class and own expensive things.
907 wordsRead More - The Necklaceanalytical essayAround the world, values are expressed differently. Some people think that life is about the little things that make them happy. Others feel the opposite way and that expenses are the way to live. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, he develops a character, Madame Loisel, who illustrates her different style of assessments. Madame Loisel, a beautiful woman, lives in a wonderful home with all the necessary supplies needed to live. However, she is very unhappy with her life. She feels she deserves a much more expensive and materialistic life than what she has. After pitying herself for not being the richest of her friends, she goes out and borrows a beautiful necklace from an ally. But as she misplaces the closest thing she has to the life she dreams of and not telling her friend about the mishap, she could have set herself aside from ten years of work. Through many literary devices, de Maupassant sends a message to value less substance articles so life can be spent wisely.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant's "the necklace" portrays madame loisel as a beautiful woman who is unhappy with her life.
- Analyzes how "the necklace" explains how valuing the more important things in life can be very effective towards a person's happiness.
- Analyzes how guy uses juxtaposition to compare madame to her husband, mr. loisel, and the dress mme wants to wear to the party.
- Analyzes how madame is so centered with herself and how much fun she is having, that she doesn't even notice to mr. loisel.
- Analyzes how de maupassant manages to show a special moment realization for madame. the golden age archetype or the party the loisel's attend, show one of the few times madame is enjoying herself but is still focusing on unimportant things.
- Analyzes how guy de maupassant's "the necklace" illustrates the message to value more important things in order to have a wisely spent life.
1345 wordsRead More - The Necklaceanalytical essayTen years of suffering is the cost of having pleasure for only one night! In “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant presents Mathilde Loisel, an attractive, charming but vacuous and selfish middle class lady transforms to selfness, poor, satisfied and hard-working lady. Even though, Mathidle owns a comfortable home and married to a faithful and kind husband, Monsieur Loisel, who seeks her happiness and satisfaction; she was ungrateful to the things that she had been given, because her greed and desire of wealth had captured her thoughts and blurred the real meaning of happiness in her perspective. Mathidle spends most of her time surfing in her day dreams of being wealthy and suffering from accepting the reality, because her imagination was more than she could not afford. One day Mathidle’s husband brought his wife an invitation for a fancy party, but as a result of their low income, Mathidle’s was ashamed to wear flowers as decoration, so she decided to borrow an expensive looking necklace from a friend of her, Madame Forestier. After attending the fabulous party and spending a memorable great time looking stunningly beautiful, Mathidle discovers that she had lost the expensive necklace that she borrowed, so she decides to buy a similar copy of the necklace to her friend after loaning an enormous amount of money and narrowing the house outcome. The author surprises his readers with a perfectly detailed twist at the end of the story. Losing the necklace was a turning point in Mathidle’s life and the best thing that ever happened to her.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mathidle loisel, an attractive, charming but vacuous and selfish middle class lady, transforms to selfness, poor, satisfied and hard-working lady.
- Analyzes how mathilde loisel learned that greed blocks people's vision from seeing the realistic value of things. guy de maupassant suggested clearly through the line of the story the difference between greed and dreams.
- Analyzes how the necklace symbolized the dominant features of mathidle's personality, such as selfishness, arrogance, superficiality, and imitation.
- Analyzes how mathidle's personality transformed from being superficial to having a deep sense of worth. dreams are the motivation that enlighten people’s path to enhance their lives.
- Analyzes how the unexpected twist at the end of the story added a very deep meaning and made readers wonder what would happen next. mathidle would never have changed if she hadn't been exposed to harsh situations.
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