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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...
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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...
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In both "The Necklace" and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" the viewpoint character is dissatisfied and wishes for better things in life. Mathilde Loisel would like to have a mansion, a carriage,...
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Madame Forestier is depicted as an affluent friend of Mathilde Loisel, who seems relatively generous by allowing her friend to borrow her imitation diamond necklace for an evening. When Mathilde...
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Direct characterization happens when the author openly describes the physical and behavioral traits of a character. We get a precise idea of what how the character looks, sounds or behaves....
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If someone is behaving petulantly, then they are being somewhat rude in their speech or actions, and they might even be in a rather peevish and petty mood that could not have been predicted. When...
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The narrative technique in the short story "The Necklace" is a third person omniscient point of view or perspective. This is an appropriate technique since Madame Loisel nor her husband would be...
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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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M. Loisel expected his wife to be pleased at the invitation from the Minster of Education because they were invited to a grand dress-up event, and M. Loisel knew how much his wife loved luxury and...
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To be petulant means to be rude in one's speech or behavior, and it can describe someone who is marked by a temporary or unpredictable irritability produced by something seemingly small or...
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Mathilde Loisel is depicted as an unthankful, superficial woman who believes that she deserves to enjoy a life of luxury. Instead, Mathilde Loisel is married to a lowly clerk who works at the...
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Monsieur Loisel definitely does not long for status as his wife, Madame Loisel, does. When the couple sits down to dinner together, he uncovers the soup and declares "with an enchanted air" that...
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Mathilde has always thought herself destined for better things. She has this strange notion that she has aristocratic blood coursing through her veins. This makes it all the more difficult to deal...
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After Mathilde Loisel loses Madame Forestier's diamond necklace on the night of the ball, Monsieur Loisel retraces their steps and eventually goes to police headquarters and the newspaper offices...
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Mathilde Loisel's husband makes this comment after his wife throws the invitation to the ball at the Ministry of Public Instruction onto the floor. Mathilde Loisel is clearly not as excited to...
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When Mdme. Loisel reads the invitation to the ball that The Minister of Public Instruction and Madame Georges Ramponneau give Monsieur Loisel, she is far from excited, as her husband had hoped:...
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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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This is a very good question. Monsieur Loisel is to be blamed for the misery he endures because it was mainly his idea to replace the lost necklace rather than tell Madame Forestier the truth and...
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Madame Loisel changes emotionally, physically, and mentally in the story “The Necklace.” Emotionally, she is selfish and shallow. Though she is married to a man who loves and provides for...
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This short story by Guy de Maupassant illustrates the futility of trying to keep up appearances by depicting Mathilde Loisel's insistence on wearing expensive jewelry to the ball in order to...
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The ironic end of the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is that the diamond necklace Madame Loisel wore in the story was but an imitation diamond necklace. When Madame Loisel is...
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That's an interesting question. Madame Loisel, to be sure, seems to have all her priorities in the wrong order. She has a husband who loves her, and he has a secure (if minor) position in the...
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The setting of Maupassant's "The Necklace" is crucial to understanding the author's themes and characterization. Written and set in the the latter part of the 19th Century, Maupassant satirizes...
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Mathilde Loisel is portrayed as a shallow, superficial woman, who desperately wishes to be a member of the upper class and enjoy a life of luxury. She is both vain and materialistic, which is why...
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Madame Forestier speaks coldly to Mathilde when Mathilde returns what she thinks is her lost necklace. In fact, the necklace is just a worthless piece of costume jewelry, but Mathilde doesn't know...
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There are three main types of narrators used in most stories (novels or short stories). First person narrators tell their story using the pronoun "I." Third person limited narrators use pronouns...
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Madame Loisel wants to lead a life of ease, comfort, and social respectability. She believes herself entitled to better things on account of what she thinks is noble ancestry. Because of this,...
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One could draw the following inferences about the Loisels based on their response to the loss of the necklace: they are both proud and honorable. One can infer that Madame Loisel is proud because...
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Let's examine how the symbol of the necklace is used in the story. At first it is seen as something of value that is desired and yet out of one's reach. In the end of the story, it's true value...
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Mathilde Loisel’s reaction when her husband procures an invitation to the Minister of Education’s event in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is a bit unexpected. Mathilde longs for the...
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Author Guy de Maupassant is the narrator of the story, and he uses Mathilde's point of view, while not using Mathilde herself, to tell her story from her perspective. This type of narrative is,...
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Mathilde is going with her husband to the ministry ball. He had set 400 francs aside so that he could buy a new gun and go hunting in the fall. However, he gives the money all to her to buy a new...
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The change in the Loisels' financial situation is caused when Madame Loisel borrows what she thinks is a very costly diamond necklace from a wealthy friend for a party. She then loses it. It takes...
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At the beginning of the story "The Necklace," readers meet Mathilde Loisel: a "pretty and charming" girl who was not born with the wealth and distinction that – we're told – her personality and...
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They first looked for the necklace everywhere, with Monsieur even going back on foot over their route home. He contacted Police Headquarters, the newspaper, cab companies, and offered a reward....
