Guy de Maupassant Essay

Question 1 (a) Issue: To determine if there is binding contract between Leila and Julie Leila advertises about her lost gold chain and locket in the local newspaper. Julie was on the way home when she found the jewelleries in the park, recalling that they were lost items from the advertisement she read. She went to Leila’s house to claim the reward. Leila denies rewarding Julie as she thinks that Julie should have called her first. Relevant Law In the eyes of the law, it is important to know…

Elena is a frequent traveler to Singapore and she usually stays at The Success Hotel when she is here. Many signs are being put up in the hotel stating that they will not be responsible for the loss of items if they are not entrusted to the front desk to be taken care of. In the case of Bass Anne Hendricks v Shangri-La Hotel Ltd (2011), Bass, the plaintiff, claimed to have lost her gold and diamond ring during her stay at Shangri-La Hotel and therefore, the defendant is liable for the loss of…

Often blinded by love, people find themselves in peculiar situations with their significant other. In the story, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, one of the main characters, Catherine Earnshaw, is portrayed as a spoiled girl who marries into a wealthy family and abuses her powers as a princess to often get what she wants. Nelly Dean, the woman who grew up alongside Catherine, and Cathy’s husband, Edgar both play a big part of the story as main characters. Nelly and Edgar have similar yet…

order to be happy. “She suffered constantly, feeling that all the attributes of a gracious life, every luxury, should rightly have been hers. The poverty of her rooms – the shabby walls, the worn furniture, the ugly upholstery-caused her pain” (Maupassant 224). Mathilde Loisel…

era by wearing low cut corsets. Rotari wanted his painting to represent the beautiful women of the Rococo period. Maurice-Quentin de La Tour showed Madame de Pompadour an arbiter of good taste and beauty. The artists show their women to be smart by giving a distant look in both of the women faces. It shows that both women is seeking out something or someone. Madame de Pompadour could be waiting for Louis XV and the woman in Rotari’s painting could be waiting for her man. She is shown as a pin-up…

In the story Time and Again by the author, Breece D’J Pancake recounts the story of a veteran murderer who killed many in France, a farmer that feeds slop to his hogs and a snow plower who lost his wife and kid. The narrator transmits clues to create a suspenseful tone, in order to recall his story without completely telling it all. These uses clues to evoke the reader to question the content to be drawn into the story. Lastly, the author uses the clues also expose how the narrator is as a…

I've been really enjoying this thread and your discussion of swan Lake convinced me to sign up. I'm not usually this negative, but here's a bit I wrote about the NYCB costume gala... I saw the NYCB costume gala program (not on the gala night). I thought Justin Peck's Pulcinella was very well crafted. It's great to see him tackling Stravinsky, classicism and tutu ballets. In my opinion, the costume gala is always a gamble. One example is Liam Scarlett's duet where the woman is so dwarfed by…

The conflict of the short story "The Gift of the Magi" is an external conflict in which Della wants to get Jim a gift that would perfectly match him and his watch and vise versa, but Della had to sell her most prized possession to afford the gift, her long beautiful hair. The hair that would make the queen of the poverty stricken town jealous. The time frame and setting in which both Della and Jim live in, is a town riddled with poverty along with the poor citizens, including Della and Jim…

The most situational irony passage is "The Necklace" because it gives us a moral of to be grateful of anything. In the "Lamb of the Slaughter" shows irony but not really situational. In "Lamb of the Slaughter" the moral is betrayal. In "The Necklace" Mathilde is unsatisfied with her life. In the "Lamb of the Slaughter" Mary felt traded on for someone else. In both stories they are unhappy with their life. In "The Necklace" it gives us the moral to be grateful about the little things and…

In The Professor’s House, Cather criticizes modernism and correlates it with the nascent materialism that corrupted the world in early 20th century. If the story of Godfrey depicts a certain struggle between his nostalgic frugality and the sudden materialism of his family, then Cather achieves that by according various, deep meanings and relations to certain objects throughout the story. Rosamond’s emerald necklace is unquestionably one of these objects that holds a special value and affected St…