THE NECKLACE
The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant.
- Biography:
Guy de Maupassant
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant, better known as Guy de Maupassant, who boned in France 5 August 1859, was a french writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and he was a representative of the naturalist, his stories are charaqcterized by economy of style and efficient. he wrote some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volumen of verse. His first published story "Ball of Fall" in 1880, os often considered his masterpiece.
Despiste his wealth and popularity, Maupassant never married, partly out of fear of being abandoned by loved one as he abandoned with death. Hia afection with syphilis contributed to his growing dementia, and he was intitutionalized after he tried to kill himself in 1891. He died two years later, on July 6, 1893.
- Historical
Background:
“The Necklace,” or “La Parure” in French, first
appeared in the Parisian Newspaper Le Gaulois in 1884. The story was an
immediate success, and Maupassant later included it in his short-story
collection Tales of Day and Night (1885). Flaubert’s influence on Maupassant is
evident in “The Necklace,” and the story is in many ways similar to Madame
Bovary. Both works, for example, revolve around attractive yet dissatisfied
young women who seek to escape their destinies. More important, both works are
also among the finest examples of realist fiction, a style of writing first
appearing in the mid nineteenth century that sought to expose the grittier
realities of ordinary people’s lives. Above all else, Maupassant sought to explore
the deeper meanings of everyday events, and his writing style has influenced
other literary greats such as Anton Chekhov and O. Henry.
- Expectations:
When I read
the titlle of the story, I think it will be about a thief who go to big houses
and always is looking for a new adventure. That person is discovered stealing
in the goberment´s house. for that reason he have to paste the punishment and he has to live there and works
for the family of the goberment. But he doesn´t want to stay there and he
decides to escape and he start to plan to take a trip to another place.
- Analysis/connection between
literary works and historical background:
Maupassant’s literary career peaked in the 1880s, around the
time when he published “The Necklace.” In the years just before and after he
published Tales of Day and Night, Maupassant wrote more than 300 short stories
and several successful novels, including Un Vie(1883), Bel Ami (1885), and
Pierre et Jean (1888). He traveled extensively during this time and often
produced his best writing on the road, writing newspaper articles, essays, and
travelogues in addition to fiction. A powerful literary figure in his day,
Maupassant formed and maintained friendships with other literary giants such as
Ivan Turgenev and Émile Zola.
- Literary movement:
Realism
Maupaussant,
like his mentor, Flaubert, believed that fiction should convey reality with as
much accuracy as possible. He strived for objectivity rather than psychological
exploration or romantic descriptions, preferring to structure his stories and
novels around clearly defined plot lines and specific, observable details. However,
he argued that calling fiction “realistic” was not correct every work of
fiction, he believed, was an illusion, a world created by a writer to convey a
particular effect to readers. He was faithful above all to the facts and
believed that close, focused observation could reveal new depths and
perspectives to even the most common, unremarkable aspects of life. “The
Necklace” clearly demonstrates Maupassant’s fixation with facts and
observations. Rather than explore Mathilde’s yearning for wealth or unhappiness
with her life, Maupaussant simply tells us about her unhappiness and all the
things she desires. At the end of the story, he provides no moral commentary or
explanation about Mathilde’s reaction to Madame Forestier’s shocking
revelation; he simply reports events as they happen.There is no pretense,
idealizing, or artifice to Maupaussant’s prose or treatment of his characters.
- Country:
That is a non fiction story because, realted a real story whit real people, story and context whith coherence and simple things. In non fiction genre whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the
truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented. In contrast,
a story whose creator explicitly leaves open if and how the work refers to
reality is usually classified as fiction. Nonfiction, which may be presented
either objectively or subjectively, is traditionally one of the two main
divisions of narratives (and, specifically, prose writing), the other
traditional division being fiction, which contrasts with nonfiction by dealing
in information, events, and characters expected to be partly or largely
imaginary.
- Did you confirm your
predictions?
The Necklace is about a pretty woman, in that story is related her story and discribed her life and the personality, I think my predictions about that story is completly wrong. that story is more realism and looks for show the reality.
- References
Biography of Guy de Maupassant.
Recovered from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant
Context of The Necklace
(2017).
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