The Necklace And Greed
Greed in the Necklace
Since time immemorial, the desire for wealth has been a natural and ubiquitous feeling. This is apparent in The Necklace. While Malthilde is attractive, lives in a middle class home, and has a caring husband, her desire for wealth destroys any contentment she might have. When she goes to a party, she borrows a diamond necklace from a rich friend so that at least she will look rich. Tragically, she loses the necklace. To cover up, she buys her friend a new necklace, but has to spend the next 10 years in poverty paying off the expensive diamond bauble. At the end of 10 years, she meets her friend, who she has not seen due to her lamentable state. She tells her friend all, and is shocked to find that the necklace her friend …show more content…
Rockefeller. Raised in a middle class home, he got a job as a book clerk at 16, and announced that he was “bound to be rich!” He became that way too! By middle age, he had a net worth of $11 Billion! This failed to make him happy, even though he gave large amounts to charity. Instead it made him paranoid. He became consumed with living a long life, which kept him from enjoying the life he had now. He went to drastic measures, which included eating orange peel and drinking olive oil for breakfast. Despite his riches, he died rather miserable. A more recent example of the corruption of greed is Martha Stewart. Beloved cook, interior decorator, and TV host, she was sent to prison for selling drug shares that she knew the FDA was going to ban. Why did she do this? She did it for money. She was already rich, but her desire for more wealth compelled her to break the law, and landed her in jail. Though having enough money obviously didn’t satisfy these two, wealth is alluring, it looks like it could give you everything you want, and some people are willing to hurt others to get …show more content…
He was one of the most ruthless drug dealers and smugglers of his day. Capone was even convicted of several murders. He was the boss of the Mafia, and it paid well. He died in prison with a net worth of $100 million. He is quoted as saying: “you can get more with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.” He was rich, he was famous, yet he died wretched in prison, because he did whatever it took to get him the money he desired. For thousands of drug dealers and gangsters, this is true today. Drugs are always in high demand, because they are seen as something else that will satisfy, and dealers are happy to supply… for the right price. Yet these reprobates lead lives full of fear, threats, and a constant pressure to get enough patrons to stay afloat. They are repulsive to moral society, yet so many “good people” do legal things for the same reasons. America, and the world, has purported that the only way to be happy, is to have lots of digits on your paycheck.. Yet in a country full of bounty, suicide and depression rates are higher than
Since time immemorial, the desire for wealth has been a natural and ubiquitous feeling. This is apparent in The Necklace. While Malthilde is attractive, lives in a middle class home, and has a caring husband, her desire for wealth destroys any contentment she might have. When she goes to a party, she borrows a diamond necklace from a rich friend so that at least she will look rich. Tragically, she loses the necklace. To cover up, she buys her friend a new necklace, but has to spend the next 10 years in poverty paying off the expensive diamond bauble. At the end of 10 years, she meets her friend, who she has not seen due to her lamentable state. She tells her friend all, and is shocked to find that the necklace her friend …show more content…
Rockefeller. Raised in a middle class home, he got a job as a book clerk at 16, and announced that he was “bound to be rich!” He became that way too! By middle age, he had a net worth of $11 Billion! This failed to make him happy, even though he gave large amounts to charity. Instead it made him paranoid. He became consumed with living a long life, which kept him from enjoying the life he had now. He went to drastic measures, which included eating orange peel and drinking olive oil for breakfast. Despite his riches, he died rather miserable. A more recent example of the corruption of greed is Martha Stewart. Beloved cook, interior decorator, and TV host, she was sent to prison for selling drug shares that she knew the FDA was going to ban. Why did she do this? She did it for money. She was already rich, but her desire for more wealth compelled her to break the law, and landed her in jail. Though having enough money obviously didn’t satisfy these two, wealth is alluring, it looks like it could give you everything you want, and some people are willing to hurt others to get …show more content…
He was one of the most ruthless drug dealers and smugglers of his day. Capone was even convicted of several murders. He was the boss of the Mafia, and it paid well. He died in prison with a net worth of $100 million. He is quoted as saying: “you can get more with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.” He was rich, he was famous, yet he died wretched in prison, because he did whatever it took to get him the money he desired. For thousands of drug dealers and gangsters, this is true today. Drugs are always in high demand, because they are seen as something else that will satisfy, and dealers are happy to supply… for the right price. Yet these reprobates lead lives full of fear, threats, and a constant pressure to get enough patrons to stay afloat. They are repulsive to moral society, yet so many “good people” do legal things for the same reasons. America, and the world, has purported that the only way to be happy, is to have lots of digits on your paycheck.. Yet in a country full of bounty, suicide and depression rates are higher than