INTRODUCTION

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PRESENTATION TOPIC
COMPARISON BETWEEN
TWO STORIES OF GUY DE
MAUPASSANT

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 COMPARISON BETWEEN “THE NECKLACE” AND “A
VENDETTA”
SIMILARITIES:

FEATURES THE NECKLACE A VENDETTA

1. NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE THIRD PERSON THIRD PERSON PERSPECTIVE

PERSPECTIVE

2. USE OF IRONY Loisel wasted ten years of her The widow Saverini is shown to be sincere
life to repay debt for that Catholic, yet commits the atrocious sin of
necklace which was actually murder.
fake.

3. SYMBOLISM Usually necklace symbolizes The word vendetta comes from the Latin
something precious and vindicta, meaning vengeance which shows
expensive but here it appears the thirst of retaliaton of the main character
as symbol of deception. of this story.

4. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE CHRONOGICAL ORDER CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

 DIFFERENCES:

FEATURES THE NECKLACE A VENDETTA

1. SETTING Time:  The greater part of the activity

• Begins in January happens in the town of Bonifacio on
• Time span: 10 years the Southern tip of Corsica.
Place:  The retaliation is satisfied in the
 The Loisel’s apartment in the Rue des town of Longosardo, arranged
Martyrs, in Paris, France. Her across a limited channel on the
apartment is shabby, dull, and ugly as Italian island of Sardinia.
it is written in the story.“She grieved
over the shabbiness of her apartment,
the dinginess of the walls, the worn-
out appearance of the chairs, the
ugliness of the draperies.”
 Forestier’s house – “a large closet
(=wardrobe) with mirrored doors”
 The Ministerial Mansion where the
ball is held.

2. PLOT

3. CHARACTERS There are less characters.
The main character is a female protagonist
named Mathilda; born mistakenly in the
family of clerks. The other characters are
Mathilda’s husband, and her friend.
There are more characters in the story.
1. The Protagonist in this story is a
widow, Saverini, who wanted to
take retaliation of his son who was
grievously murdered. The
Antagonist is her own thirst of
revenge which intrigued her to kill
her adversary brutally.
 2. Minor characters:
a) Semillante the dog, savagely treated and
the source of the widow’s reprisal
b) Nicolas Ravolati, the man who killed
Antoine
c) The neighbor who provided the widow
with straw
d) The fisherman who took her to
Longosardo
e) The person in the baker’s shop who gave
her the address to Nicolas
f) The two neighbors who saw an old
indigent departing from Nicolas’s shop
4. THEMES  The theme of Deception and Reality.  1.Revenge
 2.Women and Beauty  2.Hate
 3.Ambition, Greed, and Lust  3.Atrocity and injustice of the code
 4.Sacrifice, Suffering and Martyrdom of vendetta
 5.Happiness  4.Rancor and Cruelty
5. LITERARY  Irony  Hyperbola
TECHNIQUES  Alliteration  Imagery
 Metaphor  Irony
 Flashback  Personification
 Simile
6. LESSON  Never compare yourself with others; it  Revenge has no limits.
will leave you dissatisfaction.
 Always maintain you self-respect
 Live in your resources
 Balance between wants and needs

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