Comparing The Necklace And Part Of Your World

In “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Loisel is a poor women who desperately wants to be wealthy and have all the privileges that wealthy people have. Madame Loisel felt like she was born into the wrong caste, and that she should be living the extravagant life style of a privileged women instead of being married to a clerk that works in the Department of Education. Ariel is a mermaid that desperately wants to have the life of a human and experience the way humans live. In the song “Part of Your World” from the The Little Mermaid, Ariel sings about how she wants to “be where the people are,” and Ariels says “what would I give if I could live out of these waters?” which shows you that Ariel would do just about anything to get out of the sea. Both Madame Loisel and Ariel both long for a different life. Ariel is mermaid that just wants to be human and get away from her xenophobic father. Since her father is so terrified of the human world, he made it illegal to have any interaction with the human world, and he especially won’t let Ariel close to humans and their world at all. This just makes Ariel want to be part of the human world even more. Ariel sings “Part of Your World” to express how much she wishes she could be human instead of a mermaid. One line in the song that relates to both …show more content…
Madame Loisel doesn’t want to be drowned by the waters of poverty. Instead, she wants to be showered with the gifts and jewels of the privileged and wealthy. Madame Loisel tries to just about everything she can do to get to this life she oh so desires. However, instead of getting it, she just gets drowned by the waters of poverty even more when she has to work to pay off the necklace that she lost during the one night she truly felt wealthy and