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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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    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 obvious

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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 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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    Motifs Coveting Throughout “The Necklace‚” Mathilde covets everything that other people have and she does not. Whereas Monsieur Loisel happily looks forward to having hot soup for dinner‚ Mathilde thinks only of the grandness of other homes and lavish table settings that she does not own. When Monsieur Loisel obtains an invitation for a party‚ she covets a new dress so that she can look as beautiful as the other wives as well as jewelry so that she does not look poor in comparison to them

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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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    “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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    Appreciate What You Have Many people take what they have for granted. In "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant‚ we see how a girl experiences such a situation. The theme from " The Necklace" stated as "be grateful for what you have" is potrayed by the author with story elements and literary devices‚ such as irony and the inciting incident. To begin‚ the author from "The Necklace potrays the theme with irony and the inciting incident. For example‚ "Oh‚ my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was

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    Mikayla Jacobs Grade: 12A Prepared oral: The Necklace The character of Matilda Loisel The young‚ beautiful and charming Matilda Loisel was born into a family of clerks. Her conviction that her place in life was a mistake of destiny leads her to live her life in constant rebellion against her circumstances. Madame Loisel had everything a woman of her social class was supposed to have like a loving husband and a comfortable home but she is unaware of it because all she worried about was being

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    How does Maupassant represent the female character in "The Necklace?" "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant portrays the female character in a number of different ways. This is a short story about a woman‚ and because of her vanity‚ ruins her life at the end. The author gets this idea across by using a variety of symbols and language techniques. In the story "The Necklace‚" the author’s aim appears to be showing us that greed and jealousy will eventually lead to destruction. In this story‚ the

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