Exploring parallels between The Necklace and the fairy story

Cinderella
Main task: Now look closely at the characters and plots of both stories and complete the
comparison chart.

(a) Character

The Necklace Cinderella

Cinderella is forced to live a lifestyle (of
Mitaldae have a big house, and she is not grateful poverty and hardship) below that which is
and happy of what she had and so, at last she hers by right of birth.
starting living in the poverty because of the
necklace and now, she got that type of lifestyle as
Cinderella used to have before.

Matlidae used to be beautiful and she had very Cinderella is beautiful and good.
pride in her beauty but as we see at last, her hair
turns white and she got wrinkles all over her face
and now, she does not look like before.

Mme Loisel acquires a beautiful ball gown With the help of the fairy god mother cindrella
to wear to the Ministry party. had this very beautiful dress which she wore to
the ball

Mme Forestier lends Mme Loisel her The fairy god mother lends Cinderella the dress
necklace, so she can go to the party. and a ride so she can go to the party.

Matildae is very greedy and envouis as she want Cinderella is modest and humble and
the necklace also for the dress which his husband doesn’t push herself forward when the
bought for her. Prince comes to the house to ‘test’ the shoe
on the step‐sisters.

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The Necklace Cinderella

M. Loisel manages to get a sought‐after While, the invitation was for everyone but
invitation to take Mme Loisel to a smart Cinderella’s step mother and sister’s didn’t allow
social function at the Ministry. her to go to the party

Mme Loisel is the ‘belle of the ball’ She danced with the prince all night.
and is noticed by the Minister.

Mitaldae loses the necklace on the way home Cinderella loses her slipper on the stairs as
coming from the party. she rushes away from the ball.

She saved money for ten years and worked in The slipper is returned to her by the
different hoses for that also lived in poverty to Prince.
buy that expensive-looking necklace so that she
could return it to her friend.

Even poorer than before, Mme Loisel has to Well, for Cinderella she had to do all that
do all the difficult and dirty housework, cleaning and dishes of the house all the time but
spoiling her ‘pink nails’ and taking on the at last it pays off with marrying the prince and
appearance of a ‘hard uncouth housewife’. living happy ever after.
C ) What is the moral of the story?
(Hint: think about the behaviour that is rewarded and the behaviour that is
punished.)

The Necklace Cinderella

According to the behavior we see that Mathilda Cinderella was not pushing herself forward and
got what she deserves as she was not grateful of she quietly used to the work also she was very
what she had and so, she was in the poverty and humble and nice and so the result also she got
also lost her beauty so in my opnion the moral was according to her behavior. Not having that
should be: much still she was not ungrateful. So the moral
should be:
ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL OF WHAT YOU
HAVE AND DO NOT COMPARE WITH IF YOU DO GOOD AND HARD WORK IT
OTHERS OR ELSE YOU WILL BE SUFFRING WILL PAY OFF YOU ONE DAY,
THE CONSEQUENCES ALTOGETHER.