marxism in the necklace
Textual Analysis of “The Necklace”
In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses a woman’s life, and very important event in it, to depict the Marxism of his or her lifetime, especially amongst women. He uses comparisons and downfalls of her life to depict society’s shortcomings and beliefs of class. Marxism looks at the economic and social structures of a society and the draws attention to the struggles between the classes. A Marxist might believe that people are born as creations of economical or social positions. Born to a family of clerks, Mrs. Mathilde Louise was beautiful by looks, but felt as if she was not because she could not afford to dress well, eat well, or live well. She felt everything she had was ugly and until she was rich she would be unhappy. Matilda's husband received an invitation for him and her to attend a very high-class party, which he believed she would be ecstatic to attend but yet because of her downfalls and the Marxism of her society she felt as if she was not good enough.
Mathilde felt as she was always made for something better than she was. Guy de Maupassant says, "She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains. All those thing of which another woman of her rank would have never even been conscious, tortured her and made her angry." (Maupassant, 68). Here he depicts Marxism by showing that normal things that should have never worried her or made her conscious did so, and to a point made her paranoid. This is a depiction of her and the social class she was "trapped in" longing desperately for something it could not have at that point. Social structures and classes are also looked upon Mathilde felt as if she had nothing to wear to an upper class party.
Mathilde's husband received the invitation for her and himself to attend the Palace for a party, thinking she would be ecstatic and that she would enjoy becoming one of the "elites" for a
In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses a woman’s life, and very important event in it, to depict the Marxism of his or her lifetime, especially amongst women. He uses comparisons and downfalls of her life to depict society’s shortcomings and beliefs of class. Marxism looks at the economic and social structures of a society and the draws attention to the struggles between the classes. A Marxist might believe that people are born as creations of economical or social positions. Born to a family of clerks, Mrs. Mathilde Louise was beautiful by looks, but felt as if she was not because she could not afford to dress well, eat well, or live well. She felt everything she had was ugly and until she was rich she would be unhappy. Matilda's husband received an invitation for him and her to attend a very high-class party, which he believed she would be ecstatic to attend but yet because of her downfalls and the Marxism of her society she felt as if she was not good enough.
Mathilde felt as she was always made for something better than she was. Guy de Maupassant says, "She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains. All those thing of which another woman of her rank would have never even been conscious, tortured her and made her angry." (Maupassant, 68). Here he depicts Marxism by showing that normal things that should have never worried her or made her conscious did so, and to a point made her paranoid. This is a depiction of her and the social class she was "trapped in" longing desperately for something it could not have at that point. Social structures and classes are also looked upon Mathilde felt as if she had nothing to wear to an upper class party.
Mathilde's husband received the invitation for her and himself to attend the Palace for a party, thinking she would be ecstatic and that she would enjoy becoming one of the "elites" for a
Cited: Maupassant, Guy de. “The Necklace.” Literature: Reading to Write. Elizabeth Howells, Illinois: Pearson, 2011. Print. 68-73