Tugas FKIP Discourse Analysis (Analysis of mathilde character)

Characterization Analysis of Mathilde “ Neclace”

1.      Phisical of Analysis

a.      Mathilde is a beautiful woman and she is charming.

>  narrator tells us that Mathilde was the prettiest woman there with her elegance and gratefulness, she was very happy about it as she realized that she is the object centre.

> After years working hard, do all kind of works that she can, she looked old and ugly. She has a bad hair, ugly clothes, ugly hands because of her hard work. Her voice become bad too.

b.      From this text, it shows that mathilde is unconfidence. She doesn’t want to look embarashed in front of rich people.

Quote:

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans.(page 1)

She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling, and quite above herself with happiness.(page 3)

2.      Word and action of analysis

a.      From this text, it shows that mathilde is unconfidence. She doesn’t want to look embarrassed in front of rich people.

Ø  She is not confidence. She just flung the invitation. From the text, we can identify that mathilde is afraid to go because of her condition. She doesn’t want to appear in front of rich people with her condition now.

b.      She is a hardwork and responsible woman.

> She force to get the replacement. She doesn’t want her friend think bad about her. so, she and her husband, try hard to replace the necklace by going to the jeweller, find on the shops, begged to the jeweller to not to sell the neclace which look same with the lose one. They also lend a high amount of money.

Quote:

Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she flung the invitation petulantly across the table, murmuring:

     "What do you want me to do with this?"

 She was not convinced.

     "No . . . there's nothing so humiliating as looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women." (page 2)

She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of this universal homage and admiration, of the desires she had aroused, of the completeness of a victory so dear to her feminine heart.(page 3)

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     "What's the matter with you?" asked her husband, already half undressed.

     She turned towards him in the utmost distress.

     "I . . . I . . . I've no longer got Madame Forestier's necklace. . . ."

     He started with astonishment.

     "What! . . . Impossible!"

     They searched in the folds of her dress, in the folds of the coat, in the pockets, everywhere. They could not find it. (page 4)

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Then they went from jeweller to jeweller, searching for another necklace like the first, consulting their memories, both ill with remorse and anguish of mind.

     In a shop at the Palais-Royal they found a string of diamonds which seemed to them exactly like the one they were looking for. It was worth forty thousand francs. They were allowed to have it for thirty-six thousand.

     They begged the jeweller not to sell it for three days. And they arranged matters on the understanding that it would be taken back for thirty-four thousand francs, if the first one were found before the end of February.(page 5)

3.      Feeling of Other Character

a.      According to her husband, mathilde, actually, wants to go out to such occation. But unfortunately, he doesn’t know that mathilde wants to appear with perfect appearance.

Ø  She is careless because she doesn’t want to listen to her husband. But in here, we still can see that mathilda is responsible to her trouble.

b.      Her friend who had borrowed her the necklace, Madam Foreister, doesn’t recognise her, it means that mathilde who in the past is beautiful now become old and ugly after 10 years.

Quote:

Why, darling, I thought you'd be pleased. You never go out, and this is a great occasion. I had tremendous trouble to get it. Every one wants one; it's very select, and very few go to the clerks. You'll see all the really big people there."(page 1)

Loisel restrained her.

     "Wait a little. You'll catch cold in the open. I'm going to fetch a cab."

But she did not listen to him and rapidly descended the staircase. When they were out in the street they could not find a cab; they began to look for one, shouting at the drivers whom they saw passing in the distance. (page 3)

The other did not recognise her, and was surprised at being thus familiarly addressed by a poor woman.

     "But . . . Madame . . ." she stammered. "I don't know . . . you must be making a mistake."

     "No . . . I am Mathilde Loisel."

     Her friend uttered a cry.

     "Oh! . . . my poor Mathilde, how you have changed! . . ."(page 6)

4.      listen to feeling of own

a.      She is responsible. She doesn’t want her friend to think something bad about her because she still not bring the necklace back to Foreister.

Ø  From this text, we also could identify that mathilde is responsible and she has willingness to paid all her debt. So she and her husband do anything possible to cover their owe.

Ø   In the last page, mathilde is afraid to face her friend at first, she asks herself about greeting her friend or not. She doubt but then she be brave because she have did something wrong that make her life full of fearfullness and she thinks that she should receive her faith.

Quote:

"You ought to have brought it back sooner; I might have needed it."

     She did not, as her friend had feared, open the case. If she had noticed the substitution, what would she have thought? What would she have said? Would she not have taken her for a thief? (page 5)

This fearful debt must be paid off. She would pay it. The servant was dismissed. They changed their flat; they took a garret under the roof.(page 5)

Madame Loisel was conscious of some emotion. Should she speak to her? Yes, certainly. And now that she had paid, she would tell her all. Why not?

     She went up to her.(page 6)

5.      characterization;narrator’s direct comments

a.      From this text, narrator directly said that mathilde is the prettiest, elegant, graceful, smiling and quite about herself with happiness. She is also interesting because all men stared at her and asked to be introduced to her.

Ø    Directly, narrator said that mathilde had no marriage portion, no expetations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, she had a simple taste and just let herself to be married to a little clerk.

Quote:

Madame Loisel was a success. She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling, and quite above herself with happiness. All the men stared at her, inquired her name, and asked to be introduced to her. (page 3)

She had no marriage portion, 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 little clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to afford any other, but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her;... (page 1)