CLASS 10
THE NECKLACE
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She danced with intoxication, with passion, made drunk by pleasure, forgetting all, in the triumph of her beauty in the glory of her success in a sort of cloud of happiness composed of all this homage, of all this admiration, of all these awakened desires, and of that sense of complete victory which is so sweet to woman’s heart.
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She removed the wraps, which covered her shoulders, before the glass, so as once more to see herself in all her glory. But suddenly she uttered a cry. She had no longer the necklace around her neck!
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Mine. Loisel looked old now. She had become the woman of impoverished households-strong and hard and rough. With frowsy hair, skirts askew, and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water. But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down near the window, and she thought of that gay evening of long ago, of that ball where she had been so beautiful and so feted.
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Mme. Forestier, strongly moved, took her two hands. “Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!”
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Detailed explanation-1: -1. An example of situational irony is the fact that the Loisels spend years paying off a necklace that was worthless. 2. An example of dramatic irony is found in the fact that Mathilde tries hard to live an aristocratic life but her aspirations result in the decline of her social class rather than in an advancement.
Detailed explanation-2: -In “The Necklace, ” the climax occurs when the Madame Loisel realizes that the necklace, she borrowed from a friend is truly lost. In literature, the climax is the point where the conflict cannot get any worse; or it is the last exciting event that brings the story to a point.
Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the most bitter irony of “The Necklace” is that the arduous life that Mathilde must assume after losing the necklace makes her old life-the one she resented so fully-seem luxurious.
Detailed explanation-4: -Example of “The Necklace” Situational Irony The plot of “The Necklace” has situational irony because after replacing her friend’s expensive-looking necklace, and working for ten years to pay off the debt, Mme. Loisel finds out it was fake!