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Fate, not Fault

    One’s personality is not judged by dream, but reality.

     It’s really a tragedy for Mathilde, who has lost her beauty, her dream and her precious decade. Instead of dubbing her as a “peacock”, I found myself extremely sympathized to her miserable experience, not least because her honest, virtuous and hardworking. What’s wrong with her? Her unrealistic and never-ending scrabble to a virtual ladder by which the underclass could squeeze into a higher class? Not necessary so!She just sought to show off a more graceful image in the public, a natural sense and wish among women. Why can’t she spend four hundred francs -- a budget for her husband to “shoot larks on the plain of Nanterre with several friends” -- on a gorgeous dress for an earnestly-dreamed ball? Why can’t she borrow a superb necklace from her friend just for some spruce-up? 

    Undoubtedly this superb necklace is her Pandora’s Box, but I’m fully convinced that it is utterly an accident, an unfavorable fate! As the author put it “how life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved! ” She could blame for missing the necklace incautiously, but not necessarily for her pathetic ten years since then. On the contrary, she affronted her tough reality by earning and saving money sou by sou (with her husband). Never had she thought of buying a counterfeit necklace to fudge, nor had she forsook her husband and accost a bigwig by her charm to fulfill her cradle-to-grave dream. Once she cherished her illusory ambition and wish, but when it was overtaken by rigorous reality, she confronted it with bravery, honest and hardworking without a hesitation.

    Her only fault lies on the cheat to her friend about the missing of the necklace. If she had told truth and begged a pardon, maybe nothing miserable would have happened to her. But I still believe that it was only a white lie with no malice at all, for she merely tried to give back an identical necklace by her own efforts. Just imagine that if we have lost something valuable borrowed from our friends, would we just tell the truth and beg a pardon, or manage to find it back or buy a new one for a clear conscious? In this case, we have no reasons to blame on her, but to clap for her.

25.5.07 16:58

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