Ever since Adam and Eve ate the bearing fruit of Good and Evil from the Tree of Knowledge, humans have long desired to possess exponentially more than what they require. “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy and “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, the characters in view are discontented by their current lifestyle. They ruin every spark of a fulfilling life by adding materialistic notions to every aspect, by discrediting their close ones and feeling worse off than they actually are. Both the authors have the same theme by strongly delivering that greed ultimately has no boundaries and often brings you to your grave.
“The Necklace” is a story about a beautiful young girl called Mathilde Loisel who pursues to fit into the privileged class of society and is exasperated by her hard working middle class husband and barren surrounding. One fine day, her husband gets invited to one of the wealthy parties that Mathilde has long desired to attend, but refuses the invite on the basis of having nothing to wear. To fulfill this craving, she buys a fancy looking dress and borrows exorbitant diamond jewelry from her friend, Madame Forestier. Mathilde has a gala time at the party only to realize that she has lost the necklace during the time being. After using up all their savings and inheritance, both husband and wife, spent 10 years living in debt and penury with Mathilde losing her only asset – her looks to replace a necklace that was originally fake. …show more content…
He grasps several opportunities to buy pieces of land but due to a fallout with his neighbors, he’s required to move. In his agenda to acquire more land, he visits the Bakshirs, whose head chief consents to give him as much land as he can walk around in one day before sunset, but must return to the starting point. In this quest, due to overexertion, Pahom dies as soon as he reaches that
“The Necklace” is a story about a beautiful young girl called Mathilde Loisel who pursues to fit into the privileged class of society and is exasperated by her hard working middle class husband and barren surrounding. One fine day, her husband gets invited to one of the wealthy parties that Mathilde has long desired to attend, but refuses the invite on the basis of having nothing to wear. To fulfill this craving, she buys a fancy looking dress and borrows exorbitant diamond jewelry from her friend, Madame Forestier. Mathilde has a gala time at the party only to realize that she has lost the necklace during the time being. After using up all their savings and inheritance, both husband and wife, spent 10 years living in debt and penury with Mathilde losing her only asset – her looks to replace a necklace that was originally fake. …show more content…
He grasps several opportunities to buy pieces of land but due to a fallout with his neighbors, he’s required to move. In his agenda to acquire more land, he visits the Bakshirs, whose head chief consents to give him as much land as he can walk around in one day before sunset, but must return to the starting point. In this quest, due to overexertion, Pahom dies as soon as he reaches that