apa pesan moral dari cerita the necklace

I would say that the moral lesson of "The Necklace" is that deception is often a mistake which has bad results for the deceiver. Mathilde wishes to deceive the people attending the ball by making them think she has a higher social status than is actually the case. The borrowed necklace helps her to do this. Men want to dance with her, not only because she is young and beautiful, but because they think she must be a member of the aristocracy. But her worst mistake is trying to deceive Mme. Forestier by telling her she is having the clasp repaired and then substituting a real diamond necklace for the one she borrowed without knowing it was a fake. Many readers have expressed the feeling that Mathilde should have simply told the plain truth, that she lost the borrowed necklace. Mark Twain once said: "When in doubt, tell the truth." There are many similar wise sayings, such as "Honesty is the best policy." And "Honesty is the best policy" might stand as the moral for Maupassant's story. Sir Walter Scott wrote: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive!" And the Loisels did indeed weave a tangled web for themselves. If Mathilde Loisel had simply gone to her friend and told her the truth, Mme. Forestier would have explained that the necklace was made of fake jewels. Mathilde's husband could have paid five hundred francs immediately, and that would have been the end of the matter. The whole story revolves around the fact that the Loisels, for whatever reason, are reluctant to confess the simple truth. Even if the necklace had been made of genuine diamonds, they could have made some arrangement to pay Mme. Forestier for it on much easier terms then they got themselves entangled in, let us say a thousand francs a month for thirty-six months without interest. That would have destroyed the relationship between the two women, but it didn't amount to much anyway. Even if Mme. Forestier suspected that the Loisels had really plotted to steal the necklace, she could hardly complain when they offered to pay her back in installments. Mathilde is not to be blamed for wanting to go to a fancy ball or for losing the necklace, but she is to be blamed for wanting to deceive her friend. When she looks back over her past life, she will not regret her Cinderella triumph at the minister's ball, but she will certainly most bitterly regret her deception.

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