The necklace is a short story written by Maupassant to present the mentality of people in France during its golden ages. He did that through the use of more familiar characters to the reader who have positives and negatives, following the guidelines of literary realism to give the reader a closer perspective to the life during those days. It is based on a middle class woman who married to a junior clerk in the Ministry of Education. She had an honorable life but always felt that ‘’she was intended for a life of refinement and luxury ‘’ Maupassant is trying to portray human nature, of always striving for more than what they have and are never pleased with what’s between their hands.
Guy de Maupassant displays the human nature throughout his …show more content…
This is clearly displayed through Mathilde’s character, as “she had no fine dresses, no jewellery, nothing. And that is all what she cared about”. However she has done everything in her power make her life appear better than how it is like, That was Maupassant’s message that society was too dependent on other people’s judgments which had forced people to live in an illusional world where everyone’s actual lifes does not match their ideal life they had in their heads. The pronoun “nothing” is a hyperbole, because she obviously didn’t nothing especially that she was able to buy a new, real, diamond necklace. It also exaggerates her state of poverty, which contrasts with reality as she comes from the middle class. Maupassant message is portrayed by the “necklace” as it could be interpreted as a symbol of wealthy as it is flashy but false in the end. The revelation of the necklace falseness can mirror the futility Mathilde’s dream of wealth, is it is not worth the trouble just like how the necklace was not worth the ten years of …show more content…
Therefore the main character “Mathilde Loisel” has almost no control over her life, as she finds herself married to a husband that she doesn’t care for and trapped in a house she detests. “With women there is neither caste nor rank; and beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth” the phrase “With women” isolate women from men as if different rules and standards apply to women that would not usually apply to men. The use of simple old fashioned language suggest suggests that women during the La Belle Époque period were not ranked by their intellectual level but are ranked by their “beauty, grace, and charm” reinforces the idea of women being assessed according to their physical appearance which had forced women to form the idea that if they are beautiful they would deserve better living standards, which contrast with now a days since women and men are equally judged by the hard work they put into developing themselves and becoming the best they can be mentally and
Guy de Maupassant displays the human nature throughout his …show more content…
This is clearly displayed through Mathilde’s character, as “she had no fine dresses, no jewellery, nothing. And that is all what she cared about”. However she has done everything in her power make her life appear better than how it is like, That was Maupassant’s message that society was too dependent on other people’s judgments which had forced people to live in an illusional world where everyone’s actual lifes does not match their ideal life they had in their heads. The pronoun “nothing” is a hyperbole, because she obviously didn’t nothing especially that she was able to buy a new, real, diamond necklace. It also exaggerates her state of poverty, which contrasts with reality as she comes from the middle class. Maupassant message is portrayed by the “necklace” as it could be interpreted as a symbol of wealthy as it is flashy but false in the end. The revelation of the necklace falseness can mirror the futility Mathilde’s dream of wealth, is it is not worth the trouble just like how the necklace was not worth the ten years of …show more content…
Therefore the main character “Mathilde Loisel” has almost no control over her life, as she finds herself married to a husband that she doesn’t care for and trapped in a house she detests. “With women there is neither caste nor rank; and beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth” the phrase “With women” isolate women from men as if different rules and standards apply to women that would not usually apply to men. The use of simple old fashioned language suggest suggests that women during the La Belle Époque period were not ranked by their intellectual level but are ranked by their “beauty, grace, and charm” reinforces the idea of women being assessed according to their physical appearance which had forced women to form the idea that if they are beautiful they would deserve better living standards, which contrast with now a days since women and men are equally judged by the hard work they put into developing themselves and becoming the best they can be mentally and