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    The Necklace: Mathilde’s Materialistic and Selfish Strive to a Happy Life The Necklace is a short story by Guy de Maupassant. It begins with a explanation of Madame Mathilde Loisel. Though she is young and pretty‚ she and her husband are not well off financially. Her husband is only a clerk in the ministry of education. Mathilde is a very worldly person who is never content with anything in her life. Her husband is not a rich man‚ but he brings home enough to get by. Mathilde has always dreamed

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    grateful and happy with the things they have and the lifestyle they live because it could always be worse. Guy de Maupassant makes honesty the most important lesson of "The Necklace". By pointing out that the characters could have avoided their unhappiness by being honest‚ he reminds readers that they too may suffer consequences from dishonesty. Maupassant started the dishonesty almost immediately. Mistress Loisel was not honest with herself. She is a simple but unhappy girl(Maupassant 2). She felt

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    Question ‘The Necklace” is a popular story. Discuss the features that make the necklace a popular story. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is a well-known short story around the world. It was first published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois on February 17‚ 1884. "The Necklace” features a young‚ beautiful woman in a social situation that she finds distasteful. Mathilde Loisel attempts to escape her social situation in life‚ but her scheming actions ultimately doom her. Some of the features

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    wholly unsympathetic character who brings about her downfall and deserves her fate. How far do you agree with this assessment of her character? Remember to comment on how language‚ view point and tone convey character and meaning in the story. In‘The Necklace’‚ Guy de Maupassant introduces a character full of faults. Indeed Mathilde Loisel comes across as a wholly unsympathetic protagonist for whom the reader feels nothing but contempt. She accepts neither her rank‚ nor her way of life. It seems

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    The Irony of “The Necklace” “The Necklace” has a few different examples of irony in it. Of course it is ironic how the necklace ended up being fake‚ but it is also ironic that Mme. Forestier lied about the necklace being real. Many people think the theme to be to not tells lies and to just be honest‚ and then this would not have happened to Mathilde‚ but Mathilde was not the only one who lied. There is great irony in the fact that the necklace ended up being fake‚ and also that both women lied

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    The short story titled “The Necklace” is about a man and his wife who is very greedy and wants more than what she needs. When she gets invited to a ball‚ she demands a new dress and a new necklace. She borrows a necklace from her friend which looks like it has “diamonds” on it and then loses it. She takes ten years to pay it back‚ only to find out that the diamonds on the necklace weren’t real. The short story “The Fisherman and His Wife” is about a fisherman who finds an enchanted flounder‚ who

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    The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant Critical Analysis In The Necklace‚ by Guy De Maupassant uses materialism‚ conflict and character to show how some people are never satisfied with what they have and always wanting more no matter at what cost. The story focuses on two main characters‚ Mathilde a very materialistic person and her husband‚ a clerk who is not wealthy by any means but makes enough money to get by. Mathilde is a very selfish person in the story and abuses the love that her husband

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    The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. How does the writer try to make the character of Madame Loisel interesting for the reader in “The Necklace”? The Necklace is a self-contained French story with a surprise ending. It is structured into narrative and four dialogues. The writer uses literary devices such as peripeteia‚ poetic justice‚ a twist ending and descriptive writing to make the story interesting for the reader. Everything centres on the twist ending‚ but the effectiveness depends on the events

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    to be some one your not? In “The Necklace” author Guy De Maupassant describes the story of a young woman who no matter how much she has‚ she wants more. Mathilde is a beautiful woman but is only middle class. She wants nothing more than to be rich and have a big home. She borrows a necklace from a friend to go to a ball and she looses the necklace. She works for ten years to pay off the necklace and when she goes back to repay the woman‚ she is told the necklace is a fake. Through the use of narrative

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    “The Necklace” Guy De Maupassant She was one of those charming girls‚ born by a freak of destiny in a family of toilers. She had no fortune‚ no expectations‚ no means of satisfying her ambitions‚ except by a marriage with a rich and distinguished man‚ and‚ as she knew none‚ in order to escape from her surroundings‚ she married a clerk in the office of the Minister of Public Instruction. She dressed simply‚ because she had no means of adornment; but she was as unhappy as though she had fallen

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