Persuasive Essay On Necklace

The necklace serves as a symbol for greed. When Mathilda Loisel loses the necklace that she believed was worth forty thousand francs, she desperately retraces her steps and gets her husband to help her find it as well. It ends up taking ten years to pay off the debt. The ten years were hard on Mathilda Loisel and her husband, and Maupassant told the reader that she “looked old now… with hair half combed, with skirts award, and reddened hands” (6). However, even after the long ten years of manual labor all because she lost the necklace, she “sat down near the window and though of that evening at the ball so long ago, when she has been so beautiful and so admired” (6). The necklace symbolizes that when greed controls emotions and decisions, it never leads to good results.

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

The Ganymede Jewelry consists of earrings, necklace, pins, bracelets and a ring. But it’s not sure if they all go together. The neckless is shown to take on the look of ivy or grape leaf and have a border of beaded wire and a rosette in the center. Many places like Asia Minor, around the Black Sea area, southern Italy have known to have strap neckless,

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In The Necklace, the setting of Paris in the late 19th century is a world of elegance and wealth. If not born into a wealthy family, one would have two options: marry into a wealthy family, or stay in their social class. That is just the case for Mathilde Loisel, who is endowed with beauty but born into a family of clerks. She was born free and could have had a plentiful life because of her beauty. However, she was held back by the chains of her social status and forced to marry her wealthy husband Monsieur Loisel. Together they have an awkward relationship consisting only of their need for marriage.

The women of the Seminole tribes wore necklaces with small, glass beads that varied in color. Some favorite colors were blue(both light and dark) and red. The women of the seminoles didn’t wear just normal necklaces like us, though. Their necklaces sometimes reached a weight of 12 pounds or more, because of the copious amount of beads on the necklace. They wore these necklaces all day, and usually didn’t take them off until they went to sleep. They would store the necklaces in a basket, and they would put them on the next morning, repeating the process. What’s interesting in when a man brought engagement presents to a woman, he would give her several items, including these valuable beads. We give rings...they give beads. After a while, the

Daisy is a beautiful person with a charismatic, alluring voice. He is repetitious since he keeps using the word "bright" to describe her. The quote is longer in order to go into more detail about the loveliness in her voice. He compares it to a "singing compulsion".

2. Mme. Loisel told Mme Forestier, “These is the three pieces of jewelry I like best a bracelet, a gold cross and the diamond necklace.

Within the necklace there is multiple ironic things that happen. The three main ironic things are when she had bought a real necklace, the other necklace was fake and she had never know that it was fake, also when they search her dress to look for the necklace to look for it, and she knows that she was not the one who had sold the necklace.

From the first chapter, I found it particularly interesting when the narrator says, “she was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate” (page 8). So right from the first chapter we get an idea of the kind of society they are in, one that is mostly about money equating to power. The bracelet being a chain shows how imprisoned not only her but other women feel in that society, how they must be constantly dolled up, and if they can’t do it all themselves then that’s when they go get married (page 13). The bracelet is this constantly reminder that she, and women, are not free individuals but prisoners of society. The need to be pretty and fancy for others to see worth shows this idea of social expectations, or even social determinism.

Throughout the story the title "The Necklace" becomes several other symbols, for example when Mathilde loses the necklace and makes the decision to be dishonest, the necklace becomes a symbol of Mathilde's greed and the severe consequences that came with it. After all, the necklace is the reason why Mathilde's life went into extreme poverty and unhappiness.

Guy De Maupassant’s short story, “The Jewelry”, is about a man, named M. Lantin, who marries a woman who is infatuated by fake jewelry. She compiles all sorts of jewelry and in time her husband discovers that all of it is actually real. The author uses a myriad of literary elements to make it the absorbing short story he meant for it to be.

During this time period, women’s role in society was that of a submissive, powerless position. They often relied solely on their husband for direction, allowing the husband to make decisions and take lead no matter what. In the story of The Necklace, Maupassant illustrates these

Madame Loisel is provided with a necklace from Madame Foresteir for the event, since she does not own any jewelry. Wearing the necklace exemplifies that Madame Loisel is disguising her true wealth status, so that she appears to be an upper class person. Furthermore, tangible and extortionate items make her feel happy. When she takes hold of the “superb diamond necklace, her heart started beating with an overwhelming desire. Her hands trembled as she picked it up….She

“She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident into a family of clerks” this is what Guy de Maupassant started “The Necklace” off by saying (Maupassant 221). Also, this helps describe the main character and to give the readers a visual of Mathilde Loisel. “The Necklace” is a short story that Mathilde Loisel, the main female character, wants to be a higher class than she really is. Mathilde’s life drastically changes one night after she loses the necklace. Guy de Maupassant incorporates his use of the social class into the short story.