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You are being asked to make a value judgement about the consequences of Madame Loisel’s actions in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. Madame Loisel is unhappy with her life. Although she came...
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Really, this whole story is about social class and the desire to move up in social class. Madame Loisel is born to a lower class than she thinks she should be in. She feels that it is really...
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There is a wonderful example of foreshadowing when Madame and Monsieur Loisel go to the jeweler's shop, hoping to find an exact replacement for the lost necklace. The jeweler recognizes the empty...
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After the ball, Mme Loisel loses the necklace she has borrowed. In a panic, she searches everywhere to find the necklace. Knowing that she has to replace it, she visits a nearby jeweler. Upon...
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The plot of a story is the events that occur in it. In "The Necklace," Madame Loisel is a beautiful young woman who marries a man of her own social class, a minor government official. She is...
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One could argue that Monsieur Loisel was relatively content with his life before attending the ball and spending the next ten years paying back debts in order to replace Madame Forestier's diamond...
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The two main characters in "The Necklace" are Monsieur and Madame Loisel. These characters maintain some very poignant similarities and differences, the differences far outweighing the...
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Summary Mathilde Loisel is a charming and pretty woman who has always believed herself destined for greater things than her life has brought her. The feeling that she deserves the luxuries of life...
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Mathilde Loisel has always believed herself destined for things greater than her current circumstances. One quote that demonstrates her selfishness is found in the very beginning of the story: She...
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During “The Necklace,” protagonist Madame Mathilde Loisel—a middle-class housewife who aspires to a higher class—is unhappy with her life, married to a lowly government clerk. Madame Loisel...
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It is telling that Mathilde Loisel "had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that [...]." Though she loves jewels, she does not have the skill or the knowledge to tell real...
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You seem to be asking about Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace," about Monsieur and Madame Loisel, so I will address your question within that context. Monsieur Loisel is thoughtful and...
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Having taught this story several times, I know that students tend to develop a quick dislike of Mathilde Loisel. She has a kind husband with a good job, and he just wants to try to make her happy....
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Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" is about a young woman, Madame Loisel, who daydreams about wealth, social status and luxury. When she is able to live her preferred life for one night...
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This would be an excellent student writing assignment for the Guy de Maupassant short story, "The Necklace": to write an appendix or new ending and speculate what the Loisels' life would be like...
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is about a young woman who is not satisfied with the money her husband earns. One day, they are both invited to a ball and the woman borrows what she thinks is a...
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Although an eNotes Educator is unable to provide an "essay" for you of a particular word length, I can certainly deal with some of the elements of critical appreciation for you in regards to...
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Verbal irony is expressed by Mathilde when her husband brings home the invitation and she says "I have no gown, and, therefore, I can't go to this ball. Give your card to some colleague whose...
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In certain respects, we can't really know with certainty how Mathilde Loisel's life would have continued had she not lost the necklace. These kinds of counterfactuals, after all, are speculative...
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At the end of the story, when Madame Loisel runs into her old friend, Madame Forestier, the woman who had loaned her the diamond necklace ten years before, she finally confesses that she "lost it."...
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Verbal irony takes place when words express the opposite of what they're supposed to mean. It's most often used in expressions of sarcasm, such as when you say to someone "Oh, well done, that was...
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Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" and O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" are both short stories, famous for their ironic twist endings. Furthermore, both stories are heavily concerned with themes...
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One would hope that Mathilde has learned the hard way that it's simply foolish to pretend to be someone and/or something you're not, yet that's precisely what she did earlier by wearing what she...
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Situational irony involves the interplay between expectations and outcomes, either by the characters within a given story or by the audience following it. To observe true examples of situational...
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Initially, the necklace—which Mme Loisel believes to be an expensive piece of jewelry—symbolizes a more opulent, luxurious world, a world of wealth, sophistication, and high living. Mathilde has...
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First, Madame Loisel is unhappy because she is not married to a man of the wealth and status that would give her the fine life she dreams of leading. Although she was born in the same lower-middle...
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The "official world" in "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is represented by the fancy party to which Mr. Loisel invites his lovely wife. She is obsessed with upper-class society, longing above...
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While Mathilde Loisel and Della Young are both young, attractive women married to affectionate husbands, they are polar opposites in personalities. For, Della Young of O. Henry's "The Gift of the...
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The story is about M. Loisel, who debuts as a vain and superficial character. Her vanity ultimately leads to both her misfortune and her personal character development. The writer describes her in...
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First, examine Mathilde's initial response when she sees all the jewelry presented by Madame Forestier--"Haven't you anything else?" Even faced with all of these riches, it is not good enough for...
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Mathilde's lifetime of daydreaming most definitely turns out to be very harmful indeed, not just for her, but for her long-suffering husband. Despite coming from a long line of civil servants,...
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In "The Necklace," Monsieur Loisel makes sacrifices over and over for his wife; in "The Gift of the Magi," Jim Young makes a sacrifice only once. It is for this reason that M. Loisel can be seen as...
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A thesis statement has two aims, to state your main idea, which is your thesis, and to list the points you will make to support that idea. These are combined into one sentence that should be...
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The best thesis statements come from brainstorming answers to a carefully worded topic question. Often, the assignment itself will provide this question (in the form of a prompt). If you teacher...
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Monsieur Loisel works as a humble clerk at the Ministry of Public Education and is married to an extremely superficial, ungrateful woman. Mathilde Loisel resents marrying her husband and constantly...
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From the start of the story, Maupassant tackles the issue of class when he explains that Madame Loisel has been born into a place in the social hierarchy that limits her possibilities in ways she...
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First, I want to make sure that there is a clear understanding of what alliteration is, and how to identify it within a work of literature. At the most basic level, alliteration is the use of two...
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The main protagonist from "The Necklace," Mathilde Loisel, is very much concerned with how she is perceived by society, even as she aspires towards a lifestyle far beyond her current means. In this...
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In "The Necklace," a marvelous tale of the falsity of materialism as a value, Guy de Maupassant employs with perfection the incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant (verbal...
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The conflict is that Mathilde loses the necklace and has to give up the one thing she has to give it back. A conflict is, simply put, a struggle between opposing forces. Conflicts can internal or...
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In “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant describes a lovely young woman named Madam Loisel, who feels her social standing does not match up to her charm and elegance: She suffered from the poverty of...
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Before the fateful night of the fancy party, Mathilde Loisel's life is actually pretty good, though she doesn't know it and is not exactly grateful for what she has. She is "pretty and charming,"...
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Initially, in her home, Madame Loisel is quite unhappy. She cannot dress well because she is not rich, and so she "dressed plainly." She suffers "ceaselessly" because she cannot have the luxuries...
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Alliteration is a sound device where the initial consonant sounds of a word are repeated. This creates a musical effect and often adds a subtle emphasis in a sentence. Mathilde is a woman who...
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Personification entails awarding behaviors often done by humans to inanimate objects (or animals). Since these do not act like "persons", authors use creative license to make these inanimate...
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With foreshadowing being the use of hints or clues to suggest action to come, the dissastifaction of Madame Loisel with her life as the wife of a clerk in the Ministry of Education sets the tone...
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Sadly, I think Madame Loisel would not have had a very happy life even had she not lost the necklace. Let's suppose for a moment that as the belle of the ball, she had been able to parlay her...
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At the beginning of the story, the Loisels are relatively poor. They are poor because Madame Loisel was "born ... into a family of clerks" and had "no dowry," and because her husband is only "a...
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Mathilde's physical appearance is not described much in the first part of the story. When she has the eponymous necklace around her neck, she is said to be "prettier than all the other women,...
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There are many ways to approach writing an essay about the theme of materialism in the story "The Necklace," so here's some different angles you might try to create a hook from. The narrative...
