La Parure
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La Parure is a famous short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores themes of vanity, social class, and the consequences of pride through the misfortunes of a woman who borrows a seemingly expensive necklace.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Parure canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | The Necklace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Guy de Maupassant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | desire for higher social status versus economic reality ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | public domain in many countries ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1884 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Le Gaulois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
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short fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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radio adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| includedIn | various collections of Maupassant's short stories ⓘ |
| influenced | later short stories about irony and social ambition ⓘ |
| languageTitle |
English title: "The Necklace"
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French title: "La Parure" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
foreshadowing
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situational irony ⓘ symbolism of the necklace ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Madame Forestier
NERFINISHED
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Mathilde Loisel NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsieur Loisel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moral |
honesty could have prevented years of suffering
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obsession with appearances can lead to ruin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of bourgeois values
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ironic twist ending ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalMedium | newspaper publication ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman borrows a necklace to appear wealthy at a ball, loses it, replaces it with an expensive copy, and spends years in hardship repaying the debt, only to learn the original necklace was imitation jewelry. ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | dissatisfaction with middle-class life ⓘ |
| publicationForm | serial newspaper story ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
French literature courses
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world literature curricula ⓘ |
| theme |
appearance versus reality
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consequences of debt ⓘ materialism ⓘ pride ⓘ social class ⓘ vanity ⓘ |
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