2. Group Number: 11
Group Members Name:
I. MD Abdullah Al Mamun -17102049
II. Nusrat Jahan Rimu -17102008
III. Md. Arif Hossen – 17106060
IV. Rakibul Hassan-17103287
V. Sharier Nafis Fuad -17102188
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3. Discussion Topic
About writer
Summary
Characters
Theme of the story
Background of the story
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4. About Writer
Name: Henri Rene Albert Guy de
Maupassant.
He was a French. (5 august 1850-6 July
1893) .
He was called A master of the short story .
His stories are set during the Franco-
Prussian war of the 1870s .
His first published short story was “Boulet
de Suif” .
He wrote 300 short story, 6 novels, 3 travel
books and one volume of verse .
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5. Summary
Mathilde Loisel is a beautiful and very charming
lady in the story.
But she had the bad luck to be born into a poor
family.
She was married to a clerk in the department of
education.
She always wanted a fabulous life .
One day her husband (m. Loisel ) was invited to
A fancy ball thrown a party by his boss .
Mme Loisel felt unhappy because she would look
poor. She thought that she has nothing to wear.
No gown nor fine jewelries.
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6. So she borrow a diamond necklace from his friend
Madame Forestier .
She enjoyed the party very much with a lots of fancy
feast and young rich men.
At home, She felt her neck and realize she lost her
borrowed necklace .
Mathilde Loisel went back to street to look for the
necklace but they can not find the necklace.
So Mathilde Loisel and her husband went to A
jewelry store and they found A exactly same
necklace.
They found out that the necklace was worth of 36
thousands francs.
One day Mathilde loisels friend suddenly saw her and
she saw that Mathilde lost her good looks.
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She ask her that what happened to her and she
tell her about the lost necklace.
Then her friend say that oh my Mathilde my
necklace was a fake one it was worth only five
thousand francs.
They had half of the money so they buy the
necklace into a big debt and buy the necklace and
gave back the necklace to her friend.
They took 10 years to pay back the debts.
8. Characters
The main character of the story is Mathilde Loisel . She
was born by a lot of destiny from a family of employees.
Mathilde has been blessed with physical beauty but she
feels deeply discontented with her lot in life. When she
prepares to attend A fancy party, she borrows a diamond
necklace from her friend Madame Forestier, then loses
the necklace and must work for ten years to pay off a
replacement. Her one night of radiance cost her and
Monsieur Loisel any chance for future happiness.
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Mathilde Loisel
9. Monsieur Loisel
Monsieur Loisel: Mathilde's husband. Monsieur
Loisel is content with the small pleasures of his
life but does his best to appease Mathilde’s
demands and assuage her complaints. He loves
Mathilde immensely but does not truly understand
her, and he seems to underestimate the depth of
her unhappiness .When Mathilde loses the
necklace, monsieur Loisel sacrifices his own
future to help her repay the debt. He pays dearly
for something he had never wanted in the first
necklace.
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10. Madame forestier
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Mathilde's wealthy friend. Madame forestier treats
mathilde kindly, but mathilde is bitterly jealous of
madame forestier’s wealth, and the kindness pains her.
Madame forestier lends mathilde the necklace for the
party and does not inspect it when mathilde returns it.
She is horrified to realize that mathilde has wasted her
life trying to pay for A replacement necklace, when
the original necklace had actually been worth nothing.
11. Theme of The Story
In our opinion, the theme that the author wanted
to convey is:
Honesty and importance of telling the truth.
Happy and thankful what you have. If you want
more then work harder to achieve it.
People may pay a terrible price for greed.
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12. Background of The Story
"The necklace," the titular short story, was extremely
popular, featuring Maupassant's signature twist ending.
The story was published in 1884 and was later
included in Maupassant's short-story collection in
1885 ("tales of day and night"). The influence of
Flaubert, celebrated author and Maupassant's friend, is
clear in this story: both "the necklace" and the works
of Flaubert feature female characters who are
dissatisfied with their lives and are desperate to escape
them.
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