The Necklace
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The Necklace Isaac Asimov, a Russian writer and biochemist once said "never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." But what exactly is right? Do we humans know the difference between what is right and wrong without having morals? Morals shape up one's life... but then again what you learn from life sometimes can take someone into physical and mental ruin. This happened to Madame Loisel and her husband in Guy de Mapassant's "The Necklace". She hit her inner conflict of wanting to be someone that she is not while society pushed her into ruining her life to pay a due that was not even real to begin with. With the characterization of a stereotypical woman wanting to be more than she can handle, attaining a brutal symbolic ending, and meeting the downfall of what a wrong turn can take you to, she reaches...

