Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How does the writer bring out the
importance of appearance and reality
in The Necklace?
- The character of Mathilde and how she is presented
- young
- Baeutiful
- disontent
- materialistic
- shallow
- ambitious
- vain
- selfish
- ungrateful
- a snob
- What the necklace itself represents
- To Mathilde it symbolises wealth and beauty
- Its shininess represents her brief shining moment at the reception
- By wearing it she appears wealthy
- She has achieved her heart's desire
- The shallowness of appearances
- deceptiveness of appearance
- The reality that Mme. Forestier is wealthy but fakes it!
- The ending of the story
- ironic
- Her attempts to appear rich have led to her being poor in reality
- The symbol of wealth and power turns out o be a fake
- Her rich friend only appeared rich
- gets what she deserves
- Her need to keep up appearances has led to her downfall
- No moral judgement by the writer
- her fate is punishment?
- Any other interesting use of language
- Third-person limited viewpoint
- No moral judgements
- No psychological analysis of motives
- Reader allowed to make their own judgements
- Dialogue of her husband is coarse
- He speaks informally
- His coarse speech is at odds with her social ambitions
- in the party section lots of verbds adjectives & adverbs that convey the extent of her happiness