This document provides a summary of Guy de Maupassant's life and works. It states that he was born in 1850 in France and showed an early interest in fishing, poetry, and was eventually expelled from seminary school. It outlines his career path after graduating college, including serving in the military during the Franco-Prussian War and later working as a clerk. It highlights some of his major short story works including Boule de Suif and The Necklace. The document concludes with details on his declining mental health in later life and his death by suicide in 1893.

2. God to be praised..
 All the praises are for God
 He is the most kind and merciful Lord
 On the Day of Judgment, He is the sole monarch
 We all worship Him and the helps ask
 O, Allah, enable strayed flocks to choose the right path
 And enter among those, who are purified by the blessings’
bath
 And never drive the herds towards those
 Who, for this contemptuous world, earn your wrath
(by Yasin )

3. SHORTSTORIES
• GUY
DE
MAUPASSA
NT
PRESENTER
• GHULAM
YASIN
MENTOR
• MOHAMMAD
ZESHAN SB

4. Karl Marx
 Bourgeoisie (Haves)
 Proletariat (Haves not)

6. MOUSTACHES
Symbol of Masculinity, the man without
moustaches is not a real man (Lu
Moustaches) erotic feelings a wife complaint
Mother Sauvage son
Distinction of French from Prussian soldiers

7. Early Life
 Born 05 August, 1850 & was the ist son
 Remained with his mother and was very fond
of fishing and outdoor activites.
 At the age of 13 he was sent to a seminary for
classical studies
 He was deliberately got himself expelled at his
first seminary school .
 He was then moved to Lycee Pierre-Corneille
in Roune where he proved himself a good
scholar and took interest in poetry.
 Got acquaintance with Gustave Flaubert

8. Other Careers
 After graduating college in 1870 the
Franco-Prussian War broke out, so
he enlisted and served for a couple
of years.
 In 1871, he left Normandy for Paris
where he worked as a clerk in the
Navy Department
 In 1878 he was transferred to the
Ministry of Public Instruction

10. Maupassant the Author
writings
300 SHORT
STORIES
06 Novels
03 travel Books
One book of verse

11. Major works
 Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat,
1880)
 In 1881, 1st volume of short
stories which reached its 12th
edition in 2 years
 Other notable works were the
short stories “The Necklace,
and The piece of string,
The horrible …………………

12. Guy de Maupassant

13. Patriarch???
Loisel an authority in decisions
One who has money, has the power
Keeps Mathilda within the walls

14. Patriarchy??
No presence of women
in the piece of string
Suppression of
the women
Cause of
sufferings

15. Feministic
study
Mathilda as a
power
Mother
sauvage
Loisel love for
Mathilda
Performs what
she desires
Elizabeth in
Boul De souif

16. • Mr. Hubert (the
peasant) and the
society
A piece of
string
• A character
remains b/w haves
and have not
Mathilda
• I have one right
that of demanding
human behavior
from others
Frantz Fanon

17. Naturalism and Realism
• Life, sufferings
• Portrayal of
ordinary people
Emile
Zola
• Presentation of life
as it isFlaubert

18. The End of Maupassant
 A constant desire for
solitude, an obsession
for self-preservation, and
a fear of death and
suffered from syphilis
 On January 2, 1892,
tried to commit suicide
by cutting his throat in
Paris and died on July 6,
1893.

19. I HAVE COVETED
EVERY THING
AND TAKEN
PLEASURE IN
NOTHING
“1893
1850