"The Necklace" uses the technique of describing people with objects, taking the necklace as the main line, and starting from its multiple relationships with characters, it firmly binds the behavior, language and psychological activities of the characters, so that readers can see the image of the heroine at a glance through the necklace.

main content

The story tells that Mathilde, the wife of a young civil servant, borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend to show off her beauty for a party. Unexpectedly, the necklace was accidentally lost on the way home. She had to borrow money to buy a new necklace and then give it back to her friend. In order to pay her debts, she scrimped and saved, and worked hard for others for ten years. Finally, I realized that the necklace I borrowed was a fake diamond necklace.

Artistic feature

The novel unfolds the story with "necklace" as a clue, which makes the narrative more orderly and concentrated, and the conceptual layout is unconventional. In The Necklace, Mo Bosang is a chain structure in the plot order, with a necklace as the clue to unfold the story. This structure can intuitively express the development process of things, so that readers can easily and naturally understand the development context of the whole story.

The heroine of the necklace is the wife of a petty-bourgeois employee. She has a beautiful face and charm, and feels that she was born to enjoy all kinds of luxurious life. It can be seen that she is inevitably unwilling to live a dull life now, and will long for the luxury of the upper class.

Therefore, Mo Bosang arranged a party for the Education Minister George Long Bono and his wife to satisfy Mathilde's vanity, which also triggered a series of stories.

Extended data:

Creation background

65438- 1980 in France, capitalism developed viciously, the big bourgeoisie took power, plundered the people, government corruption prevailed, and social morality declined. The decadent life of the bourgeoisie and the mercenary moral concept have influenced the whole society, and the pursuit of pleasure and vanity has become a bad social atmosphere.

This social atmosphere is also common among the petty bourgeoisie. Because this class is extremely unstable in capitalist society, they always want to get rid of this situation and join the upper class. But only a few people succeeded, and most of them fell into a more tragic experience in the competition of capitalism.

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