What Is The Irony Of The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

Irony happens in a lot of places in the stories Flowers for Algernon and The Necklace. Irony happens in The Necklace when Mathilde loses her friends Necklace she bought a 36 thousand franc necklace. Meanwhile, the necklace that she actually lost was only worth about 500 francs. In The Necklace, the irony is shown when “Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her hands. “Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was at the very most five hundred francs!..” (Maupassant, 5). It is ironic that she spent ten years paying for something that was worth less than the necklace that she bought to replace the false necklace with. There is also irony in Flowers for Algernon when Charlie is unhappy due to the operation that

"Irony is a device that protects him (the artist) from the pain of his experience so that he may use it objectively in his art(Susquehanna. "New Critical")." In The Glass Menagerie, it is ironic how Tom speaks badly of his father and his leaving home but in the end he leaves home just like his father, the man "in love with long distances (Williams 30)''. The fact that Amanda wants what is best for her children is ironic because she worries so much over it that she doesn't realize what is best for them.

Verbal irony occurs when a character says something different from what they actually mean. This occurs once in “Night” when the Parisian woman on the boat throw coins to the young men. The boys then fought one another like wild animals for the spare change. Eliezer, being reminded of the men throwing bread onto the train car, pleads to the woman to cease what she is doing. The woman, however, believes she is doing nothing wrong and replies, “Why not, I like to give to charity.”

The first indication of dramatic irony is in “Masque of the Red Death” when the black room with the blood red windows is described. This description creates a bad feeling about the room and the reader senses something bad will happen in that room. This idea is proven later when the Prince dies in that room. Another example of dramatic irony is demonstrated in “Terrible Things” when Bunting writes “‘We have come for any creature that is white,” the Terrible Things thundered. “There are no white creatures here but us”’(Bunting, Three). This quotation illustrates dramatic irony because the rabbits do not understand that the Terrible Things are there for them, but the reader has this realization. This alarms the readers and causes one to dread what will happen to the rabbits. One more example of how dramatic irony builds suspense in stories is in “The Lottery” when Tessie says “‘I think we ought to start over” Mrs. Hutchinson said… I tell you it wasn't fair… you didn't give him enough time. Everybody saw that’” (Jackson, Four). This quotation is a good example of dramatic irony because when Tessie started causing a scene the reader begins to suspect that she will be the one who is chosen. This is significant because her pleading adds to the audience's fear of not knowing what will happen to the person who is

Dramatic irony is the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses through a work’s structure. When the policemen are eating Mrs. Maloney’s cooked lamb leg, one of the men says, “It’s the old story, get the weapon, and you’ve got the man” (Dahl). This is dramatic irony because men are clueless as to knowing Mary is the murderer, and little do they know, they are eating the murder weapon. Another example of dramatic irony that is expressed is when Mary just stands by the kitchen listening to the men talk amongst each other. As the men continue to eat, one of them states “she wants us to finish it. She said so. Be doing her a favour (Dahl). Mary told the men that Patrick would not appreciate the situation if they men did not eat; she told them to finish the lamb leg so it would not go to waste, but in all reality, the reason why she wanted the meat eaten up is because it is the murder weapon, and so if it is all gone, there will be no proof of anything. These examples of dramatic irony that are expressed in the story help to create

In Guy de Maupassant’s story the necklace, Madame Loisel’s is a women in the middle class who’s unsatisfied with her lifestyle and envies the upper class lifestyle. Her personality takes her through a irony filled roller coaster throughout the story. The story shows three different types of irony in the story which are verbal, situational, and dramatic.

Irony is a literary device that comes up multiple times throughout the memoir. This specific example is the most ironic one in the book because although their family had been poor throughout their entire lives, Jeanette’s mom had owned a plot of land worth over one million dollars, and had never taken advantage of selling it and becoming

Tessie Hutchinson, has won the lottery, instead of being happy, she is full of dread. The lottery is meant for winning astonishing prizes and ,never to be heard of, amounts of money. Tessie Hutchinson has got the exact opposite of what's expected of winning the lottery. Her grand prize is to be stoned to death. By no other than her beloved family and amazing friends. This is situational Irony, an unexpected twist. Situational Irony makes the reader feel surprised, by some unfaithful or amazing event. O.Henry’s “ The Ransom of Red Chief”, uses humor to display situational irony, while Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” uses situational irony to prove justice. By examining these two short stories: “The Ransom of Red Chief” and “The Necklace” it is present how the author uses situational irony to change the what the reader feels about the character.

Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to produce the effect of justice in “The Necklace.¨ For instance, Matilde spends 10 years in misery for nothing. She spends ten years trying to regain the money lost and pay off the debt even though it was fake. For ten years

For instance, she thinks she should be rich, but ends up one of the poorest people. She said she let herself be married to a clerk. Also, she imagined herself eating fancy meals. She then becomes very poor, “She came to know the heavy work of the house”(7). She could have worn flowers, but she did not want to look poor. If she did not act rich, then she would not be poor. Another example of situational irony is when she realized she wasted ten years making up money when the necklace was fake. Matilda spent ten years paying the debt she owed everyone. She lived in the attic, where the poorest of the poor live. Also, her husband worked three jobs to pay off all of the debt they are in. This was all only to find out, “‘Oh, my poor Matilda! But mine was imitation. It was worth at very most five hundred francs”’(8). Matilda spent ten years paying off debt, but if she told the truth she would not be poor. In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant uses situational irony to create a feeling of

After losing what she thought was an expensive necklace, her and her husband had to replace it. The paid forty five thousand francs for an identical new one. They accumulated debt and sacrificed as much as they could. Guy de Maupassant wrote, “Madame Loisel came to know the life of abject poverty” (7). This an an example of situational irony because she feels that she deserves more than what she has but in the end she has less. The reader feels sorry for her because despite her greed she still lived in abject poverty for ten years. Another example of how the author uses situational irony to make the reader feel sympathetic toward a character is when it turns out that the necklace was fake. This is ironic because Mathilde and her husband paid forty five thousand francs to replace the necklace when they only need to pay about five thousand. Mathilde finds this out at the end of the story when Mathilde confronts Madame Forestier and Madame Forestier replies, “Oh my poor Mathilde! But mine was an imitation it was worth at the very most five hundred francs.” (8) The author produces pity in the reader because mathilde suffered in poverty when she didn't have too. Guy de Maupassant clearly uses situational irony to make the reader feel pity

Readers can be attracted to irony because of these different ways. It is used as a hook to grab the reader’s attention and keep the interested enough to read until the end to find out what happens to the characters. Irony is also used to develop a surprise ending like the one in The Cask of Amontillado, when a Fortunado is betrayed by Montressor. Irony can also be used to reveal hidden character personalities and motivations like Montressor’s. Irony can also teach moral and practical lessons, and this can keep the reader’s attention by inflicting strong feelings or opinions on what they feel the character has done morally incorrect.

Throughout Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace”, situational irony is used to create the feeling of desire in the story. For example, Madame Loisel wishes that she could be rich, but to the reader's

There is plenty of irony in “The Necklace”. The situational irony in this story happens at the end of the story when Mathilde, who really does not like hard labor or anything lower class finds out that she has had to give up the greatest years of her life to save up and replace a necklace that she discovers is a fake.  For a person who prided herself in that kind of taste and appearance on the upper class could not even tell the difference between the fake and valuable. The dramatic

The art of irony is something that is hard to use in the right context; one cannot just write a story and throw in pieces of irony into it expecting it to be great. They need to be thought out and well planned, the readers see this in Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. There are several different types of irony that Poe uses to entrance the reader into getting more involved with the story and the tale that Poe is telling. The three different uses of irony that Poe brings into this story are verbal, situational, and dramatic. The things that one can do with irony are as limitless as the words that are in a language. Poe not only used each of these in the same story, but he used each of the ironic instances to bounce them off of each other to make the wit that he exposes the reader to even greater. In Berel Langs “The Limits of Irony” he talks about what the true limit of irony, which he goes on to say “common view finds irony limitless, with its characteristic starting point in a contradiction . . . then evokes an indefinite number of further displacements” (571). What this quote is saying is that irony begins in the same manner each time. The ironic twists and turns that the author uses are innumerable. Poe uses these different types of irony to take the reader down his twists and turns that he uses to change the story and plot