One day, the husband won an invitation to hold a party in the Ministry of Education. Facing the opportunity, Mathilde was very upset because she had no clothes. Her husband bought her a gorgeous evening dress with the money he saved on rifles, but she still wanted jewelry. Because she had no money, her husband asked her to borrow some jewels from her friend, Ms. Frais Festival. She was lucky enough to borrow the most dazzling jewel necklace, which really made her occupy the limelight of the party, but it was gone later.
Mathilde and her husband took out their savings, borrowed enough money to buy a new necklace and gave it back to her friend, Ms. Frais Festival. In the following years, she and her husband worked hard to pay off their debts. Mathilde met Ms. Jenny in Blissful Park and told her about buying a new necklace so that she could return it when it was lost. Ms. Jenny was very surprised to say that the original necklace was just a fake worth 500 francs.
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Guy de maupassant (1August 5th, 850-1July 6th, 893),/kloc-0, a French critical realist writer in the second half of the 9th century, was called "the three great short story masters in the world" together with Chekhov of Russia and O. Henry of the United States. His masterpieces include Necklace, Belle Ami, boule de suif and My Uncle Yule.
Classical Chinese style
Literary form/style/genre
Compared with many great French writers, Mo Bosang does not have the profound historical insight like Balzac, the keen political sense like Stendhal, the meticulous care like Flaubert, and the broad vision like Zola, but he has one characteristic: an extraordinary ability to capture life. He is good at digging out the essential meaning and aesthetic value of life and life from ordinary people's daily life, which greatly enriches the theme of literature. Taking trivia as the theme and short stories as the main creative form is Mo Bosang's breakthrough in literary theme and genre.
language
Mo Bosang's language is fresh and fluent, simple and natural, beautiful but not refined, refined and refined, and humorous.
A group or faction
Mo Bosang and Flaubert are both representatives of French realistic literature in the late19th century. They disapprove of naturalism and hate the grandiose style and logical confusion of romanticism. However, he inherited the practice of observation, analysis, refinement and generalization in critical realism, held a bystander attitude towards life, and covered up the writer's analysis of reality with a calm description.
theme
Mo Bosang's works are full of hatred for rulers, sympathy for the weak in life and sincere praise for the simplicity and kindness of the lower classes.
environment
At that time, many novelists often set their stories mainly in Paris, but Mo Bosang boldly found another way, and constantly described the wonderful natural scenery of Normandy with the familiar Normandy region as the background, which was quite distinctive at that time.
works appreciation
Mathilde is a "beautiful and moving woman" because "there is no dowry assets" and "there is no way for a rich and prestigious person to know her, understand her, love her and marry her". Later, she could only "make do" and "marry a small clerk in the Ministry of Education", and she was dissatisfied and gave birth to a desire for change. Mathilde's vanity and pursuit of pleasure ruined her ten years of youth. But for Mathilde, who is dissatisfied with her life, she didn't exchange her vacation for a luxurious life. She just thought about it. She abides by the basic principles of being a man and maintains her dignity.
There is a lot of helplessness in life, especially a little woman like her who has no right or money. Temporary vanity is regarded as an expensive necklace and a lifelong burden. This is undoubtedly the greatest sorrow of the petty bourgeoisie represented by Mathilde. However, when Mathilde faced a major life change that decided her fate in the second half of her life, it was not difficult to find that this naive and pure little woman who fantasized all day actually had a strong soul and amazing courage.
After losing the necklace, Mathilde did not hesitate in the face of a heavy blow, but quickly returned to reality and resolutely made an amazing decision: "I want to repay this terrible debt." The tempering of poor life not only changed her appearance, but also changed her spirit. Hard work and life have brought her unrealistic fantasy back to the real place from the cloud, and now there is a new Mathilde. Although Mathilde is unfortunate, her misfortune is that she can't get what she wants, which adds trouble in vain. At the same time, she is also lucky, and the cruel reality has awakened her.
But the author's purpose is not to affirm or deny any Mathilde, but to strengthen the drama of the fate that even the characters themselves can't believe. This turning point is extremely sudden, which is a blow to Mathilde and unprepared readers-Mathilde's necklace after ten years of hard work turned out to be fake!
This is exactly the shocking power that Mo Bosang pursues by carefully using novel skills: it dramatically reveals people's powerlessness in the face of fate, which is also the concentrated expression of Mo Bosang's pessimism. People are fragile, passive and always controlled by fate. A little thing can make people from scratch, and all people's ideals, pursuits, longings and delusions will eventually return to nothingness and have no value and significance.
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Baidu encyclopedia: necklace