"Honesty is the best policy" Elucinate. (The Necklace Grade 10)
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Honesty is the best policy" Elucinate. (The Necklace Grade 10)
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The story that I have read is "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. Honesty is the best policy. In this short story, I have learnt about the importance of honesty.
The main character, Mathilde was very materialistic and yearned for luxuries. In order to show her wealth, she had borrowed a superb diamond necklace from her former classmate, Madame Forestier to attend a ball. After the ball, Mathilde discovered that she had lost the diamond necklace. Her husband, Loisel went on foot to retrace the entire route to search for it. Unfortunately, he returned home without finding anything. In this condition, Mathilde did not inform Madame Forestier that she had lost the necklace. However, she lied to her friend explaining that she needed time to mend the clasp of the necklace. This really showed that Mathilde did not potray any honesty.
In the short story, Loisel was another character who displaced dishonesty. When he knew that Mathilde had lost the necklace, he did not even want to tell the truth to Madame Forestier. He asked her wife, Mathilde to write to Madame Forestier and tell her that Mathilde needed some time to mend the clasp of the necklace.
Futhermore, though Madame Forestier did not literally lie, she displaced dishonesty by trying to cover up the fact that the necklace was paste. She did not tell Mathilde that the diamond necklace was paste and it was only worth five hundred Francs. If Madame Forestier had told Mathilde the truth earlier, Mathilde and Loisel would not suffer such hardship to earn money for returning the "paste" diamond necklace.
In conclusion, the characters in this story, Mathilde, Loisel and Madame Forestier had delivered the message containing the importance of honesty through their dishonesty. The lesson to be learnt is always be honest, because lies are capable of leading to another and eventually - endless disasters.
'Honesty is the best policy.' This statement can be explicated through the story 'The Necklace' written by Guy De Maupassent.
Mme Loisel was a beautiful women who considered herself to be born for a lavish lifestyle. Jewels, marvelous dresses, exquisite food she wish all these but as if through an error of destiny she was born into a house of clerk and was married to a clerk. The simple lifestyle she was leading was making her unhappy and she always drifted into her imaginary lifestyle.
A day when her husband brought an invitation of an official party, she got an opportunity to live her dream life for an evening. With her husband's savings she brought a beautiful dress and borrowed a necklace from her friend.
The necklace which had brought from her friend was lost on the way to home from party and as it was a borrowed one she had to return it. She did not tell her friend that she had lost the necklace and asked her to return in a week's time.
She and her husband then led the next ten years of their life with extreme hardship to repay the loan they had taken to buy another necklace for her friend. However, at last Mme Loisel get to know that the necklace was an artificial one and was not made of real diamonds.
if Mme Loisel had been honest and had told her friend that she has lost the necklace then she would have not led a difficult life. She lost her external beauty of which she was so proud earlier. One lie made her face so many hardships in life. Something that was worth not more than 500 francs she returned it with a 36000 francs. Thus, honest is the best policy.