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by Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant(1850-1893)

French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer.Guy de Maupassant was probably born at the Chateau de Miromesniel, Dieppe on August 5, 1850. In 1869 Maupassant started to study law in Paris, but soon, at the age of 20, he volunteered to serve in the army during the Franco-Prussian War. Between the years 1872 and 1880 Maupassant was a civil servant, first at the ministry of maritime affairs, then at the ministry of education.

As a poet Maupassant made his debut with Des Vers (1880). In the same year he published in the anthology Soirées de Medan (1880), edited by E. Zola, his masterpiece, "Boule De Suif" ("Ball of Fat", 1880). During the 1880s Maupassant created some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. In tone, his tales were marked by objectivity, highly controlled style, and sometimes by sheer comedy. Usually they were built around simple episodes from everyday life, which revealed the hidden sides of people.

Among Maupassant's best-known books are Une Vie (A Woman's Life, 1883), about the frustrating existence of a Norman wife and Bel-Ami (1885), which depicts an unscrupulous journalist. Pierre Et Jean (1888) was a psychological study of two brothers. Maupassant's most upsetting horror story, Le Horla (1887), was about madness and suicide.

On January 2, in 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died on July 6, 1893. 

The story begins with a pretty young girl who thinks she is really a lady and feels that she needs only the external trappings of her true status. Although she is married to a simple clerk, she acts as though she has fallen from her proper station; she feels that she was born for luxuries but must endure poverty.

Determined to make the best of an opportunity when she and her husband are invited to an elegant party, she borrows a necklace from an acquaintance to impress those not easily impressed and, like Cinderella at the ball. All of this comes crashing down to reality, however, when she reaches home and discovers that the necklace is missing. Her husband exhausts his meager inheritance and then borrows the rest, mortgaging their life away to buy a replacement for the necklace.

Now that Madame Loisel knows true poverty, she shows herself to be made of something more valuable than her petty desires for surface flash have suggested. With heroism and pride, she shoulders her responsibility with her husband and for ten years does brutal manual labor until she has paid for the necklace.

In his novel Maupassant raised several vital issues: conflict of desires and capabilities, the discrepancy spiritual organization of human to social conditions of its existence, the detrimental impact of bourgeois society per capita, human weakness and fear of the more successful socially people.

Mrs. Loisel

Artistic image of Mrs. Loisel psychologically adjusted and variable: delicate, fragile, subtle sense of beauty and wealth, grievously tormented beyond the circle of things and people, which is her soul, she eventually turns into a strong, seasoned work and the natural life of a woman.

Mr. Loisel

Mr. Loisel from the beginning of the narrative is a whole character: he is proud of his work, he was comfortable in his environment, he loves his wife and is ready to give it everything he's got. Loss of necklace Mr. Loisel perceives with due humility and as a man of exceptional integrity, solves the problem by giving for momentary pleasure the woman he loved his inheritance and ordinary life in an apartment with a maid.

Madame Forestier

Madame Forestier is a distinct bourgeois character: it is rich, indulgent and always good to his girlfriend. That's just all her wealth is proving to be outside: her necklace made of fake diamonds, and she was so used to this deception, that he did not consider it necessary to talk about Matilda.

In 2007-2011 was filmed TV series "Novels of Maupassant". It was a film adaptation of novels and short stories by the

author. Among them was "The Necklace".

We definitely recommend to read the story written by Guy de Maupassant "The Necklace" because when the reader discovers that the necklace was made of paste, it is a momentary shock; on closer reflection, this final knowledge proves to be anticlimactic, for one realizes that the story is about deeper ironies. What was taken to be real is found to be false. What looked rich on the outside is actually very poor. Yet Madame Loisel, who has looked poor on the outside, turns out to be genuine inside. “The Necklace” is a classic example of the tight ironic structure of the short story in which the unified tone dominates every single word.

by Guy de Maupassant

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by Guy de Maupassant