The Necklace Marxism Analysis

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The Necklace
I will analyze section six of the Necklace from a Marxist prospective. My purpose is to show the graduation of Mrs. Loisel from a lady of leisure to a worker. To do so I will be giving ideas that help support the Marxist view’s that are within the story. The ideas of class struggle, shame, spectacle and envy and his ideology of what Marx called the “workers rebellion”. Here is a brief overview of what Marist theories and ideas are.
Marxism is the philosophy of a German philosopher who felt that the world is fueled by class structure. You have on one side the rich and on the other side the poor or the workers as Marx would call them. He felt that the world was ran by the workers but was unfortunately ran by the rich. The idea of
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“Mrs. Loisel seemed old now. She had become a strong, hard woman, the crude woman of the poor household”. Marx idea of truly becoming a part of society by working for it shows in this quote. She has turned into the maid that once worked for her but she has not lost in the Marxist sense. The women is who runs the household they make the machine run in Mrs. Loisel never did that the maid did. Now that she is in charge of making the machine run she is doing her part. She know knows the idea of the “working day” the continuance cog like motion that makes everything …show more content…
You have to be appreciative of what you have and though I don’t like working everyday somehow I feel I’m doing my part. Marx views aren’t to wrong to me because, the rich look down on those of the working class because they don’t know how it feels to be one. The poor has more appreciation of money when they do achieve it because we know the feeling of working for it. Mrs. Loisel I believe will never wish to be more than what she is after the experience she has went through. Though she still in visions the past I don’t believe she will take for granted what she does have which to me is the thing that would separate us from the one

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