Guy De Meaupassant

The Necklace, by Guy De Maupassant, is about a woman, Mathilde, who will only lie because she doesn’t want to lose any of the fame or class that she has. Mathilde is similar to a bully that doesn’t want to show their true self because they are afraid that others will judge them. She is afraid that people will call her a thief, but in that process, she loses her natural beauty along with everything else she had. Even though both Mathilde and bullies are unique and don’t need to fit in, they lie about themselves and hate others instead of appreciating what they already

Many authors through time and through this day and age have used symbolism in their works. Critics may say there is too much symbolism in some works. There is never too much symbolism in a work. Symbolism enhances the characters, words, places, and objects to levels that a average work could not reach without the use of symbolism. The more symbolism an author uses, the more attached a reader becomes to the story. Look at August Wilson 's Gem Of the Ocean play. It is loaded with symbolism and has a deep meaning to the story. Every main character has something that symbolizes them. It shows the character 's back rounds and what they have been through.

Many authors use symbolism to help their readers grasp the concepts they are trying to convey. They take concrete items or ideas to represent something abstract.

Symbolism is used in many ways and writers use symbolism to “enhance their writing.” It can give their work “more richness and color and can make the meaning of the work deeper.” In literary work the actions of the characters, words, action, place, or event has a deeper meaning in the context of the whole story. The reader needs to look see the little things like a dove symbolizes peace, or like the red rose stands for romance. Mostly everything can have a symbolism meaning to it. For instance the flag symbolizes freedom and the stars represent the states. Even some signs are symbols like when a beaker has a skull with a bones placed like an ‘x’ behind it symbolizes that it’s toxic or bad. When people see the red light when driving that’s

Symbolism is usually used to represent things that are meaningful without actually saying so, you’ll sometimes have to read behind the lines. Symbolism can be used as an artistic or poetic way of writing to represent an idea. There is a lot of symbolism used in the novel “Kindred” by Octavia Butler, she uses symbolism through her character Dana’s constant physical and emotional pain, it’s a motif. The constant pain and abuse Dana goes through represents the fact that whenever Dana travels back in time and gets hurt weather emotionally or physically, she never comes back as she originally was, she brings back a reminder of the past with her.

Using symbolism can take your story to a whole new level by showing us how each character feels in additional it can make a person or even an objects stand out a whole lot more. In Eudora Welty they used symbolism in many different ways that you can even notice them right away.

Symbolism is commonly used by authors that make short stories. Guin is a prime example of how much symbolism is used in short stories such as “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “Sur.” In both of these stories Guin uses symbolism to show hidden meanings and ideas. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” there is a perfect Utopian city, yet in this perfect city there is a child locked in a broom closet and it is never let out. A few people leave the city when they find out about the child, but most people stay. Furthermore, in “Sur” there is a group of girls that travel to the South Pole and reach it before anyone else, yet they leave no sign or marker at the South Pole. Guin’s stories are very farfetched

Her husband tries and tries until he comes up with a great idea to give her an invitation to a ball. She cheers up a little until she realizes she can’t afford a dress. Her husband asks how much and had given her the money to purchase herself a nice dress. She has the dress but still doesn’t feel pretty nor happy after she put the dress on. She wanted more than just the dress which was jewels but didn’t have any. Someone suggested that she should use flowers, but didn’t find happiness in the flowers. Madame Forestier offer Mathilde to borrow her diamond necklace, which gave her the emptiness that she needed to feel happy. She had a great night and was on her way home when she went to feel for the necklace but found that it was gone. She started to panic and retraced her steps but couldn’t find it anywhere. She and her husband went from jeweler to jeweler to find the exact necklace and to replace it. They worked and worked until they had paid it off and returned it to Madame Forestier. She was a little annoyed since she had got it a few weeks after the ball. Eventually she admitted to what she had done and was surprised with what she was told. She was informed that the necklace was a fake. That it was costume jewelry. In this story the Madame was an outsider towards Mathilde. Mathilde didn’t know who she was and had taken the necklace to wear for the

In the short stories The Cask of Amontillado and The Lottery, both the authors have skillfully used symbolism to create intriguing stories that capture the reader’s attention. The use of symbolism makes a reader see objects as more than what they actually are. Edgar Alan Poe and Shirley Jackson have both used symbolism to create suspense in their stories and leave the readers shocked with an unexpected ending. These symbols are portrayed within the attire of the characters, the names of the characters, and the time and setting of the story. The symbols also provide a foreshadowing to the events that are to unfold in each of the stories.

Symbolism is a literary technique that is used to clarify the author's intent. Sometimes it is used to great effect, while other times it only seems to muddle the meaning of a passage. In "Young Goodman Brown," Nathaniel Hawthorne uses objects and people as symbols to allegorically reveal his message to the reader.

As I began to explore the deeper meanings behind various symbols and themes in the novels I read, I began to wonder why authors choose to disguise their messages, causing their readers to put forth so much extra effort just to decode what they are really trying to express. It wasn’t until I began to observe the use of more symbolism in complex novels, and until Professor Thomas C. Foster layed out why authors write what they write in How to read literature like a professor, when I really began to discover the reason for it all. Authors tend to create a theme that readers are guaranteed to be familiar with, thus, increasing the likelihood of the reader being satisfied with the outcome of the Novel.

Showing how positive and negative symbolism are very repeatedly noticeable or brought up serving an importance to the story. These are some ways how negative and positive symbolism can have

In the short story "The Necklace" there are different themes that are displayed, which are falseness of appearances, the vulnerabilities of exaggeration, and the impression of power placed within an object. The main character Mathilde Loisel portrays the qualities of being vain and false. Mathilde vain quality comes from her pride which causes her to have this constant discomfort in her life. Which later in the story it shows the consequences of her vanity when she loses the necklace. The falsity quality is when Mathilde and her husband go to the Education Ministry Ball she poses herself to be rich and elegant but in reality she is poor. These concepts of vanity and falsity by choice are implemented in today 's society as well as throughout the short story "The

Faulkner, the author of “ A Rose for Emily” uses symbolism through the entire story to help convey the theme. An example of symbolism would be Emily Garrison's house. The house is a very old pre-civil war house which during the time Emily’s father was alive it was a very nice and prestigious house. Her house helps the development of the theme by being a symbol for an older generation. Emily Garrison is stuck in the past and does not want to accept that times have changed and her house is a good representation of that. Her house never changes and it never does in the story because Emily makes the choice to not go on with the times which helps allude to the theme. In the story “Hills like White Elephants” by author also uses symbolism. The

While reading “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant I came across many different literary devices that contribute to the multiple themes of the short story. The first theme I noticed was deceptiveness. Mathilde claims that she feels that she isn't born for the life of poverty. That her current life isn't the one she should be living, evidence of this can be found in the first paragraph “The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes is born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man” Almost as if it's being told through Mathilde's eyes, like she thinks she is better than others, but theoretically, would most