Be Happy For What You Have “The necklace” by Guy De Maupassant is a short story about being thankful for what you have. In the story a woman named Mme. Loisel feels very disconsolate because she does not have the luxuries or stature of high society. When Mme. Loisel gets the chance to go to a grand ball she buys a nice dress and borrows a diamond necklace. When Mme. Loisel loses the necklace they spend ten years paying it off. By the end of the story‚ Mme. Loisel learns to be happy for what she
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The plot of most short stories is condensed in length and of a more simplistic nature relative to novels. Guy de Maupassant’s‚ “The Necklace” is no exception. Starting with the exposition‚ the story has only three main characters‚ Madame and Monsieur Loisel––both very simple‚ “economical” characters that are among the lower-rank of society’s hierarchal ladder‚ and Madame Forestier‚ Mathilde Loisel’s affluent friend. A combination of 19th century language and lifestyle‚ as well as the life span of
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She longs so eagerly to charm‚ to be desired‚ to be wildly attractive and sought after (82). In the “The Necklace” Madame Loisel pride takes center stage. The author‚ Guy de Maupassant‚ a French citizen‚ wrote his short story in the 1800s. At this time in France‚ citizens were born into specific classes. Mathilde Loisel‚ the main character ends up marrying below her social worth‚ longs for prestige. Although fate plays a small part in Madame Loisel’s life‚ her selfish character is responsible for
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Macbeth‚ written by playwright William Shakespeare‚ is one of the most famous and beloved plays of all time. The play‚ a tragedy revolving around the tragic hero Macbeth‚ is about a regicide and its aftermath taking place in Scotland. The play begins with Macbeth along with his best friend and fellow nobleman‚ Banquo‚ successfully defeating two separate armies from Ireland and Norway respectively. On their journey home‚ Macbeth and Banquo encounter three witches who make prophecies to them. Macbeth
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1: We feel sympathy for Pip because he is in a very volatile situation in his life right now. He is without Mother and Father‚ he has an iota of food to eat‚ and his sister and her husband are quite the capricious couple. I think that Dickens wants us to like Pip because he is the main character in the story‚ and gives a lightness to the spooky plot of the story. 2. Dickens uses an abundance of different devices in order to describe Mrs. Gargery. Mrs. Gargery is described to be: One who
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cannot help but shout that she looks different. Mathilde says that the change was on her account and explains to her the long long‚ detailed story of losing the necklace‚ replacing it‚ and working for ten years to pay back the money owed . At the end of her story‚ Madame Forestier holds together her hands and tells Mathilde the original necklace was just costume jewelry and not worth
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What strategies does Alan Bennett use to create sympathy for the characters in the History Boys? To what extent is he successful? Alan Bennett is a playwright acclaimed for his controversial plays such as “Beyond the Fringe” and “The Madness of George III”. The most famous of these is “The History Boys” winner of a Tony Award for Best Play in 2006. It is set in the 1980s in a traditional secondary school in working class Sheffield. Education‚ in this case A levels‚ is the overall focus of the
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In the story The Necklace by “Guy de Maupassant”‚ Mathilda‚ the main character throughout the story‚ remains static from start to finish. Her materialistic desire combined with her love for attention is still evident after years of hardship and struggle. She [suffers] immensely due to the fact that she cannot have everything she [desires]. The poverty she faces contradicts her expectation that she deserves “all the refinements and luxuries of life” (1). These thoughts consume her and the objects
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Mona Mosleh English 101 Professor Borg Analysis of Sympathy In Sympathy‚ Paul Laurence Dunbar portrays the caged bird and elaborates upon its presence to develop a deeper meaning. As the author looks at the caged bird‚ and he feels its pain. It’s stuck in a cage‚ it can’t fly around as birds are meant to do‚ and it’s suffering since it spends countless time thrashing about against the bars that enclose it within its cage. The fact that the speaker says he "knows what the caged bird feels" suggests
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As Petri Liukkonen states in “Guy de Maupassant…” “Latin has believed that his wife’s jewelry were fakes”(Guy 3). Like in “The Necklace” Mathilde lost a necklace that looked priceless to her when she first got sight of it. But at the very end of the story she finds the heart breaking truth‚ and that was that the necklace was a fake. Also later on Petri Liukkonen points out that i ones of Guy’s stories he “ sets fire to his own house‚ to destroy his Horla‚ but only his servants
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