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प्रश्न
As a reader do you sympathise with Matilda? Give reasons from the text to support your answer.
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उत्तर
I think Matilda is one of the finest human characters that has ever been written. Matilda's pride in her stunning appearance was her one shortcoming. But with humans, this is quite natural. Matilda was from a lower middle class household and chose to assume a position of deference even after marriage. She may not have allowed herself to wed a clerk if she had been very ambitious. It is tragic that her attractiveness was the root of all of her problems. She became firstly sad and dissatisfied because she was a materialistic woman. Second, she gave up her generally healthy existence for a life of struggle and hardship. She was proud, but not arrogant, because of her beauty. Finally, Matilda overcame all of her weaknesses, showed no remorse for her lost beauty, and emerged as the definition of a character.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What fresh problem now disturbs Mme Loisel?
How is the problem solved?
What do M. and Mme Loisel do next?
Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde.
Mathilde was beautiful, and so she wanted to marry an aristocrat.
Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde.
Mathilde felt that her house was shabby and poorly furnished.
Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde.
Mathilde wanted other people to envy her.
Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde.
Mathilde wanted a new dress for herself.
Read the following :
- The necklace
- an error
- all these things
- another woman
- one evening
- her husband.
In all these phrases we see some words used before the nouns. They specify or make it clear what noun we are talking about. These words that are used at the beginning of a noun phrase are known as determiners.
Determiners include articles (a, an, the), possessive pronouns (my, our, your, her, etc.), demonstratives (words like this, that), quantifiers (much, many, etc.), numerals, etc.
Write your phrases using each type of determiner.
Briefly state how Matilda invited ‘a dreadful life of necessity’ into her family.
What makes a person happy and confident during special functions and parties?
What did the envelope hold?
Was the husband a considerate person? How do we now that?
Why was Mathilde sad, restless and anxious though her dress was ready?
What did Madame Forestier’s large box contain?
What was the arrangement with the jeweller? Do you think it was fair?
Who is Madame Loisel?
Who do you think was responsible for Mathilde’s misery? Was it her friend, she herself, her husband or the circumstances?
Read the conversations in the story (The Necklace) aloud using proper intonation.
