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0 APPLICATION OF RELEVANT THEORIES OF LITERARY CRITICISM IN THE TEXT

The strongest theory is realism. Realism is the effort to portray life as it truly is. Realism is a break from Romanticism, a story which highlighted about strange lands and wonderful adventures. The story seemed to be great by putting aside the real world. It was such likely the fairy tales with the beautiful heroines in need of helps, handsome and rich heroes on horses and also the evil and ugly witches like what was written in the tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was in the year 1885 when Guy de Maupassant wrote this story meaning that it was in nineteenth century. Most of the writers in this era always wrote about the noble mans, kings and queens, prince and princesses, warriors and knights. However, Guy was being a realist when he wrote what was really happened in the actual world. He is one of the authors who diverted from the typical writings style except for Kate Chopin and Charles Dickens.

The actual objective why realist writes the story is to charm the impression that the characters really exist and the events narrated are the events of ordinary experiences and not just a fable. Like what had happened in The Necklace, Mathilde was portrayed as an ordinary woman who had a normal life. Guy wrote She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. That was why she did not happy with her own life and demanded for more. As we went further, she was unsatisfied when she had no beautiful dress to be worn at the ball and later after she got the dress she still unpleased as she got no jewellery to put on. Guy showed that how the thing what was really happened in the real life when not everyone was born in the silver spoon so the desire to be in the higher social class was always there. Usually, realists concern themselves in ethical issues. They write how the characters deal with the conflict of their moral dilemma and how it affected the whole

story. Mathilde was depicted as a greedy woman at first and later she had split her own personality when she had to go through the hardness where she learned to be pleased with what she had. The textual evidence was She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen and also And, clad like a poor woman, she went to the fruiterer, to the grocer, to the butcher, a basket on her arm, haggling, insulted, fighting for every wretched halfpenny of her money . Guy wrote how a difficulty of life could teach someone who never concern about the things that they ignored before and that what actually happened in our life.

Aside from realism, another useable theory that I could find was the anecdote criticism. Anecdote refers to the story that recounts an event in order to convey idea, moral or information. Anecdote is popular and could be found in a lot of writings and spoken stories. It could both in a fable or real stories. To be clearer, the authors used a main event in the story to tell about the moral values that we could learn in the story. For example in the tale of The Hare and The Tortoise, the race was assumed as the main events that lead to the story after that.

In my analysis text, the main event that became the turning point to the other incident was the ball. Anecdote sometimes could be a climax in the certain stories. Why did I say the ball is the anecdote in this text? It was because of the ball why Mathilde Loisel went to borrow the diamond necklace with her old friend, Madam Forestier. Suddenly she discovered, in a black satin case, a superb diamond necklace; her heart began to beat covetously. She went to borrow the necklace to ensure that she will be seen as a woman with higher economic ladder. Hence, here we already could learn a moral value - not to be greedy. Just imagine what if there was no invitation to the ball, was it necessary for Mathilde to borrow that necklace? That was how the author wanted to convey the messages. Then, another important event also occurred at the ball when the necklace lost, then it lead to another episode when Mathilde and his husband had to borrow money to replace the missing necklace. Then the plot expanded throughout the

story as they have to work hard for ten years to pay up all the debts. That was when they had to start a poor life and at last she knew that they were having a hard life for nothing as the necklace was a fake.

I could say that anecdote was already told to us within the title The Necklace itself. Why Guy chose the necklace not the ball? For me, it was because the story of the necklace was the dominant in the story but still it was because of one important event the ball. From that event onwards, Guy conveyed a lot of messages that was adapted from our daily life. Some of them were to be thankful of what we had, be frank when we did something wrong so there will be no misunderstanding and .people should evaluate themselves and others on who they were intrinsically - on their character and moral fiber, not on what they possessed or where they stood in society.

As a conclusion, these were two of the literary criticisms that I could find and elaborate from the short story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. 2.0 APPLICATION OF RELEVANT THEORIES OF LITERARY CRITICISM IN THE TEXT

The strongest theory is realism. Realism is the effort to portray life as it truly is. Realism is a break from Romanticism, a story which highlighted about strange lands and wonderful adventures. The story seemed to be great by putting aside the real world. It was such likely the fairy tales with the beautiful heroines in need of helps, handsome and rich heroes on horses and also the evil and ugly witches like what was written in the tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was in the year 1885 when Guy de Maupassant wrote this story meaning that it was in nineteenth century. Most of the writers in this era always wrote about the noble mans, kings and queens, prince and princesses, warriors and knights. However, Guy was being a realist

when he wrote what was really happened in the actual world. He is one of the authors who diverted from the typical writings style except for Kate Chopin and Charles Dickens.

The actual objective why realist writes the story is to charm the impression that the characters really exist and the events narrated are the events of ordinary experiences and not just a fable. Like what had happened in The Necklace, Mathilde was portrayed as an ordinary woman who had a normal life. Guy wrote She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. That was why she did not happy with her own life and demanded for more. As we went further, she was unsatisfied when she had no beautiful dress to be worn at the ball and later after she got the dress she still unpleased as she got no jewellery to put on. Guy showed that how the thing what was really happened in the real life when not everyone was born in the silver spoon so the desire to be in the higher social class was always there. Usually, realists concern themselves in ethical issues. They write how the characters deal with the conflict of their moral dilemma and how it affected the whole story. Mathilde was depicted as a greedy woman at first and later she had split her own personality when she had to go through the hardness where she learned to be pleased with what she had. The textual evidence was She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen and also And, clad like a poor woman, she went to the fruiterer, to the grocer, to the butcher, a basket on her arm, haggling, insulted, fighting for every wretched halfpenny of her money . Guy wrote how a difficulty of life could teach someone who never concern about the things that they ignored before and that what actually happened in our life.

Aside from realism, another useable theory that I could find was the anecdote criticism. Anecdote refers to the story that recounts an event in order to convey idea, moral or information. Anecdote is popular and could be found in a lot of writings

and spoken stories. It could both in a fable or real stories. To be clearer, the authors used a main event in the story to tell about the moral values that we could learn in the story. For example in the tale of The Hare and The Tortoise, the race was assumed as the main events that lead to the story after that.

In my analysis text, the main event that became the turning point to the other incident was the ball. Anecdote sometimes could be a climax in the certain stories. Why did I say the ball is the anecdote in this text? It was because of the ball why Mathilde Loisel went to borrow the diamond necklace with her old friend, Madam Forestier. Suddenly she discovered, in a black satin case, a superb diamond necklace; her heart began to beat covetously. She went to borrow the necklace to ensure that she will be seen as a woman with higher economic ladder. Hence, here we already could learn a moral value - not to be greedy. Just imagine what if there was no invitation to the ball, was it necessary for Mathilde to borrow that necklace? That was how the author wanted to convey the messages. Then, another important event also occurred at the ball when the necklace lost, then it lead to another episode when Mathilde and his husband had to borrow money to replace the missing necklace. Then the plot expanded throughout the story as they have to work hard for ten years to pay up all the debts. That was when they had to start a poor life and at last she knew that they were having a hard life for nothing as the necklace was a fake.

I could say that anecdote was already told to us within the title The Necklace itself. Why Guy chose the necklace not the ball? For me, it was because the story of the necklace was the dominant in the story but still it was because of one important event the ball. From that event onwards, Guy conveyed a lot of messages that was adapted from our daily life. Some of them were to be thankful of what we had, be frank when we did something wrong so there will be no misunderstanding and .people should evaluate themselves and others on who they were intrinsically - on their character and moral fiber, not on what they possessed or where they stood in society.

As a conclusion, these were two of the literary criticisms that I could find and elaborate from the short story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. 3.0 APPLICATION OF RELEVANT THEORIES OF LITERARY CRITICISM IN THE TEXT

The strongest theory is realism. Realism is the effort to portray life as it truly is. Realism is a break from Romanticism, a story which highlighted about strange lands and wonderful adventures. The story seemed to be great by putting aside the real world. It was such likely the fairy tales with the beautiful heroines in need of helps, handsome and rich heroes on horses and also the evil and ugly witches like what was written in the tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was in the year 1885 when Guy de Maupassant wrote this story meaning that it was in nineteenth century. Most of the writers in this era always wrote about the noble mans, kings and queens, prince and princesses, warriors and knights. However, Guy was being a realist when he wrote what was really happened in the actual world. He is one of the authors who diverted from the typical writings style except for Kate Chopin and Charles Dickens.

The actual objective why realist writes the story is to charm the impression that the characters really exist and the events narrated are the events of ordinary experiences and not just a fable. Like what had happened in The Necklace, Mathilde was portrayed as an ordinary woman who had a normal life. Guy wrote She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. That was why she did not happy with her own life and demanded for more. As we went further, she was unsatisfied when she had no beautiful dress to be worn at the ball and later after she got the dress she still unpleased as she got no jewellery to put on. Guy showed that how the thing what was really

happened in the real life when not everyone was born in the silver spoon so the desire to be in the higher social class was always there. Usually, realists concern themselves in ethical issues. They write how the characters deal with the conflict of their moral dilemma and how it affected the whole story. Mathilde was depicted as a greedy woman at first and later she had split her own personality when she had to go through the hardness where she learned to be pleased with what she had. The textual evidence was She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen and also And, clad like a poor woman, she went to the fruiterer, to the grocer, to the butcher, a basket on her arm, haggling, insulted, fighting for every wretched halfpenny of her money . Guy wrote how a difficulty of life could teach someone who never concern about the things that they ignored before and that what actually happened in our life.

Aside from realism, another useable theory that I could find was the anecdote criticism. Anecdote refers to the story that recounts an event in order to convey idea, moral or information. Anecdote is popular and could be found in a lot of writings and spoken stories. It could both in a fable or real stories. To be clearer, the authors used a main event in the story to tell about the moral values that we could learn in the story. For example in the tale of The Hare and The Tortoise, the race was assumed as the main events that lead to the story after that.

In my analysis text, the main event that became the turning point to the other incident was the ball. Anecdote sometimes could be a climax in the certain stories. Why did I say the ball is the anecdote in this text? It was because of the ball why Mathilde Loisel went to borrow the diamond necklace with her old friend, Madam Forestier. Suddenly she discovered, in a black satin case, a superb diamond necklace; her heart began to beat covetously. She went to borrow the necklace to ensure that she will be seen as a woman with higher economic ladder. Hence, here we already could learn a moral value - not to be greedy. Just imagine what if there was no invitation to the ball,

was it necessary for Mathilde to borrow that necklace? That was how the author wanted to convey the messages. Then, another important event also occurred at the ball when the necklace lost, then it lead to another episode when Mathilde and his husband had to borrow money to replace the missing necklace. Then the plot expanded throughout the story as they have to work hard for ten years to pay up all the debts. That was when they had to start a poor life and at last she knew that they were having a hard life for nothing as the necklace was a fake.

I could say that anecdote was already told to us within the title The Necklace itself. Why Guy chose the necklace not the ball? For me, it was because the story of the necklace was the dominant in the story but still it was because of one important event the ball. From that event onwards, Guy conveyed a lot of messages that was adapted from our daily life. Some of them were to be thankful of what we had, be frank when we did something wrong so there will be no misunderstanding and .people should evaluate themselves and others on who they were intrinsically - on their character and moral fiber, not on what they possessed or where they stood in society.

As a conclusion, these were two of the literary criticisms that I could find and elaborate from the short story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant.