Gustave Eiffel

Calixta, the protagonist of Kate Chopin’s short stories entitled At the Cadian Ball and The Storm, is a young woman that lives her life according to what society believes is right. She comes from a lower-class family, but is also described as a beautiful woman and a “Spanish vixen” (216). Calixta has strong feelings for a “handsome young planter”, but those feelings are overshadowed by a “big, brown, good-natured man” that society believes she should be with because they are in the same class…

Every single person thirsts to be accepted and respected and high regard but some do more than what is necessary to gain that respect. This is essentially true for Mathilde, the protagonist in Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”. In the story, Mathilde’s pride causes her to become ashamed of the extent of her poverty, which in turn causes her to lie. This lie inflicts great suffering upon Mathilde. In the short story, it is revealed that pride blinds one and causes one to lie for…

“Who knows? Who knows? How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed to ruin or to save!”(4), says Guy de Maupassant in his short story, “The Necklace”. This quote explains how drastically a person’s life can change from a decision they make. In “The Necklace,” Madame Loisel loses a necklace she borrowed from her friend, Madame Forestier, This lead to a negative outcome in her life. In the short story, “The Necklace,” the author, Guy de Maupassant, uses characterization and irony to show…

People should be thankful for what they have because money has to be earned with hard work. Mme. Loisel did not realize how hard her husband worked and learned the hard way to be appreciative. In “The Necklace” written by Guy Maupassant Mme. Loisel borrows a diamond necklace and ends up paying for her lies she told, literally. This story is fictional, and many people can learn a good lesson from it. Mme. Louisel caused her own downfall because she was greedy, envious, and selfish. Mme.…

In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace,” Mathilde Loisel disdains what she had- a cozy home life, a bowl of hot soup, a loving husband- and seek for possessions that exhibit wealth. Because of her greed, Mathilde lost ten years of youth, leaving everything behind, and is forced to reside as a ragged housewife. De Maupassant informed the reader of Madame Loisel’s longing for wealth and her ungratefulness for what she has, through his use of anaphora. Therefore, Mathilde is a character…

Sacrifice in “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Necklace” In “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry and in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant the characters face poverty. “The Gift of the Magi” Della and Jim want to get each other something special for Christmas. They both sacrifice their most valuable possessions for each other. “The Necklace” Mathilde asks her husband for money because they are going to the Minister of Education, and she says that her clothes will make her look poor; she gets a…

Flaubert demonstrates Emma’s downward spiral through her posture and movements along with those imposed on her by others. Throughout Madame Bovary, Flaubert chooses and employs Emma’s specific positioning to serve as a lucid expression of the descending entrapment of her life’s decisions. Emma’s positioning refers to any bodily movement, expression or posture. These positionings reveal her various feelings of fear, desperation, seduction, and insecurity. These feelings appear through decisions…

Gustave Courbet's life begins June 10, 1819, in Ornans near Besancon in France. Art started for Gustave at a young age in a little seminary at Ornans. His teacher, "Le Pere Baud" decided to take his students out to nature to draw. "This was a very audacious step at that time. Up until the period of Romanticism the landscape did not exist in its own right; it was merely the setting for mythological or other compositions." (Boudaille, Georges. Gustave Courbet (New York: graphic society Ltd. 1969),…

viewed as the weak and more evil side of the two? Throughout the human histories, women are often required to fulfill certain gender roles the society set up upon them. In the novel of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the female protagonists Tita and Emma use fervor of the youth to conform the social expectations while challenge them through portray of motherhood and relationship with men. Trying to focus herself into being the perfect sister…

criticism has been writen regarding the writing style Flaubert initiated with his work. With this essay I want to emphasize the relevance of his assertion when he stated that he wanted to write a novel about nothing. 'A novel about nothing ' – Gustave Flaubert. This sentence, apparently simple, contains an extensive meaning. Flaubert wanted to create a masterpiece in which every topic was relevant regardless of its banality because he believed everyday affairs could be adressed thoughtfully. …