The Necklace. Circumstances And Twists Of Fate

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THE NECKLACE; CIRCUMSTANCES AND TWISTS OF FATE THAT CONSPIRED AGAINST THE LOISELS AND THE PROBABILITIES OF SUCH CONDITIONS OCCURING IN REAL LFE Life is fickle; determined by twists of fate. For the many who have lost their love ones to natural disasters like the earth quakes in Sichuan and Haiti, or the hurricane in New Orleans, life could be normal one day and disastrous the next. Romeo and Juliet, had their lives full of love and hope one moment; yet at the next, they killed themselves unable to bear life without the other. This was due to a twist of fate: life’s fickleness in its role in the fortunes of man. In this story of forbidden love, Romeo did not receive the letter from Friar Lawrence about Juliet taking the potion that will make her appear dead. What if Romeo had received the letter? Apart from its fickleness, life as some would contend, is also unfair, as indeed it seemed, for the Loisels in Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace”. As Guy himself asked the readers after all the debts in borrowing money to buy the lost necklace had been paid off, “What might have happened had she not lost the necklace? Who could tell? Who could possibly tell? Life is so strange, so fickle! How little is needed to make or break us!” Yet for all life’s seeming fickleness, life for the Loisels may have taken a completely different route if certain circumstances, events and twists of fate in “The Necklace” had not conspired against them. What were these circumstances, events and twists of fate; and what were the probabilities of such conditions occurring in real life in France in the mid- to late-nineteenth century? Maupassant’s story of a woman who borrows a diamond necklace from a friend, loses it, buys another to replace it, and suffers ten years to pay off the money she borrowed to buy the necklace, only to make the heart sickening discovery at the end
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