Compare the ways in which the authors portray the central characters in The Necklace and Veronica.
Through The Necklace De Maupassant cleverly crafts a moral fable in the story of Madame Loisel, almost imparting an ideology on the reader to be careful of that which he or she wishes for. He does this in a pre meditated fashion and plays the ironical part of the omniscient narrator. Pearce, when writing Veronica, used a different technique where he takes, what could be a realistic and true story and gives it a fatalistic touch. Both authors manage to move the audience emotionally but do so differently.
“She was one of those...who...get themselves born” The Necklace is written in the third person which helps De Maupassant to provide a variety …show more content…
De Maupassant portrays Madame Loisel as being the typical young woman who has been ‘diagnosed’ with Cinderella ‘syndrome’ and her whole ideology centres around the perfect husband and the perfect life and perfect household and she feels that she’s accidentally been born to the wrong family who are incidentally not as wealthy as she would probably like. “She dreamed of...” He shows a woman who will probably spend the rest of her life dreaming away about various things she would like-a classic stereotype of the female gender. Pearce however shows the other side of the coin of representative woman stereotypes where veronica is portrayed as a typical third world woman, beaten by her father (“Her father was a brute...”)at quite young an age and then she grows up with no ambition to move further in life and she is quite stoical and passive. As she is this wonderfully simple-minded, humble woman one cannot help but feel sympathy for her when throughout her whole life she does not necessarily move forward, generally, and yet she dies such a devastating death-in the arms of one she does not confess her true love
Through The Necklace De Maupassant cleverly crafts a moral fable in the story of Madame Loisel, almost imparting an ideology on the reader to be careful of that which he or she wishes for. He does this in a pre meditated fashion and plays the ironical part of the omniscient narrator. Pearce, when writing Veronica, used a different technique where he takes, what could be a realistic and true story and gives it a fatalistic touch. Both authors manage to move the audience emotionally but do so differently.
“She was one of those...who...get themselves born” The Necklace is written in the third person which helps De Maupassant to provide a variety …show more content…
De Maupassant portrays Madame Loisel as being the typical young woman who has been ‘diagnosed’ with Cinderella ‘syndrome’ and her whole ideology centres around the perfect husband and the perfect life and perfect household and she feels that she’s accidentally been born to the wrong family who are incidentally not as wealthy as she would probably like. “She dreamed of...” He shows a woman who will probably spend the rest of her life dreaming away about various things she would like-a classic stereotype of the female gender. Pearce however shows the other side of the coin of representative woman stereotypes where veronica is portrayed as a typical third world woman, beaten by her father (“Her father was a brute...”)at quite young an age and then she grows up with no ambition to move further in life and she is quite stoical and passive. As she is this wonderfully simple-minded, humble woman one cannot help but feel sympathy for her when throughout her whole life she does not necessarily move forward, generally, and yet she dies such a devastating death-in the arms of one she does not confess her true love