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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the protagonists Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard in terms of each story’s theme, climax and conclusion. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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regarded as little more than male appendages; who they were and how they were perceived was dependent upon the men they married and the status they had acquired. Women
had nothing of their own in terms of property or identity. They were expected to do the best they could and if they were privately unhappy in their marriages,
they were supposed to appear happy and suffer either in silence or behind closed doors and out of public view. Any of these women who sought to live for
themselves would pay dearly for these desires. They were women, after all, nurturers and protectors of others. There was no place in their lives for selfish pleasures.
In two short stories of the nineteenth century, Guy de Maupassants "The Necklace" ("La Parure") and Kate Chopins "The Story of an Hour," female protagonists wish to break free of
their unhappy marriages and their mundane existences. They wish to liberate themselves from their socially imposed oppression and live on their own terms instead of constantly being defined by
the needs of others. In "The Necklace," the short storys theme was framed around a feminine protagonist who was "seemingly fated to her status in life" (Lombardi).
It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the heroine falls victim to a fatal flaw (Lombardi). In this instance, Mme. Mathilde
Loisel has two - excessive vanity and pride. All of her life, she has wanted a status and an independence society denied her. As the narrative reveals, "She
had no dowry, 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
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