The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

Stylistics is an approach that is used to analyze the utilization of language in literary texts in order to occupy a better understanding of the text. Stylistic approach enforces the power and penetration of speech by examining the expressive and suggestive devices. The elements of stylistic approach such as the lexical features, the poetic point of view and the construction of characters are used to scrutinize the content of a literary work. The utilization of these elements is reflected in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. Generally, the vocabulary used in the excerpt above is mostly complex vocabulary as there is an attachment of suffix to the root word such as, “poorness”, “hopeless”, “delightedly”, “endlessly” and many more. Although …show more content…
There are an explicit use of concrete nouns like, “house”, “walls”, “chairs” and “curtains” in the excerpt. These concrete nouns allow readers to judge Mathilde as it depicts the materialistic character of her. Although she has a comfortable house and a caring husband, she is clearly unsatisfied with it and her desire for wealth is oblivious. The use of the pronoun “she” and “her” imply to us the exploitation of third person point of view whereby, the narrator projects the thoughts and feelings of the main character to the readers. This third person point of view focuses mainly on Mathilde’s thoughts and feelings. This approach facilitates the readers to be involved and to break through the protagonist character in more depth. The centralization of the main character is apparent as the narrator only focused on the pronoun “she” and “her” in the entire excerpt. The repetition of the words “she imagined” emphasizes on the yearning of the protagonist to experience the affluent lifestyle. While, the repetition of the word “she suffered” illustrate how deeply she is discontented with the modest yet uncomfortable life she is living at …show more content…
Mathilde portrays a negative impression on the readers because of her dissatisfaction towards the lower- class life she is enduring. She is very much discontented that she is virtually ignorant of everything but the wealth she does not possess. On the other hand, Mathilde’s husband creates a positive thought on the readers as he is content with the small and simple pleasures in his life. Through the negative role of Mathilde, the writer imposes a positive moral value that true value is ultimately dependent on perception and that extravagant live can easily deceive. In a nutshell, the utilization of stylistic approach in a literary work is significant as it will not only help the readers to analyze the textual linguistics but also encourages the readers to interact with the textual structure to infer meanings. By scrutinizing a literary work, a deeper insight of it could be observed which indirectly allows a literary work to be more