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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: 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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    portray how appearance might be totally different from reality. " A married man’s story" shows us inside the husbands thoughts and memories and how in reality he is dispassionate about everything around him . While ‚ in "Bliss" we get a glimpse of how Bertha believes her life is "Bliss" instead of facing reality. We enter the mind of the husband in " a married man’s story" and we reveal that even though from the outside his family seems happy and well suited . In reality however‚he is

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    the necklace Theme: the contrast between true values and false values .Mathilda was born into a family of clerks but she was not satisfied with her position in life. She wanted to be a wealthy lady. She complained constantly over the simple life her husband provided for her. She felt she was born to be sought after and should have the luxuries of life. She is ungrateful to her husband although he provides her with a furnished apartment‚ sufficient food and even a maid. This ingratitude is highlighted

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    In The Necklace‚ Guy De Maupassant uses various methods and techniques in order to present the main character‚ Mathilde Loisel In The Necklace‚ Mathilde Loisel is presented as a hopeful ‘Glamour girl’. She finds the idea of glamour and the pretty and expensive gifts that come with it very appealing‚ however‚ unfortunately for her; she was not born into a life of wealth or money. Rather than living the life of her dreams‚ she gets married to a ‘little clerk’ husband in an upstairs apartment‚ which

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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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    Morality vs. Reality The story "Battle Royal" is the key in understanding and seeing the relationship between morality and reality. The characters in this story‚ namely the grandfather and his grandson‚ reveal to us their individuality‚ principles‚ morals‚ and ethics doing so they unfold a map that reveals their mental reality. Because their principals‚ morals and ethics reveal to us their mental reality‚ then their mental reality discloses the reality of the society in which they live in. The

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    Matthew Choco June 16‚ 2015 11-D#5 Mr. James Nicolay The Necklace The short story titled "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is a story of deep sympathetic connection with Mathilde‚ as she struggles with the true cost of wealth after losing the necklace her friend lent her during the party. Guy de Maupassant illustrates his understanding of wealth as merely an aesthetic part of a person is seen emphasized inside Mathilde’s struggles‚ and we see that the conflict of the

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    Forced Reality In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how one’s imagination can often be more desirable than the harsh truth of reality. Gatsby is so enraptured with his own imagination‚ which has developed over five years‚ that all he can see is the hope behind the bright green light rather than how the light might be fading. This green light‚ which represents Daisy‚ was how Gatsby continued to have the presence of his love in his life. He had these idealistic expectations for Daisy

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    short story "The Necklace." Its protagonist‚ Mathilde Loisel‚ longing for a lavish lifestyle rather than her middle class way of life‚ falls under the spell of an priceless diamond. Dealing with her fate‚ some of Mathilde ’s strong character traits soon become apparent. Examining these attributes‚ we discover that Mathilde Loisel definitely has a negative personality. The first of many character traits of Mathilde Loisel that Maupassant makes evident in the "The Necklace" is greed. She

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