Choices In Maupassant's The Necklace

The question is, ‘What choices do we make in our lives that are driven by our needs and wants?’ and that answer lies in these examples of people in stories and in real life choices being driven by their needs and wants. The first example would be Mathilde in the short story ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant, Mathilde believes that she needs money and expensive things. The second example would be the thieves in the short story ‘Civil Peace’ by Chinua Achebe, the thieves want for money makes them turn to stealing. Lastly the third example would be how people who are addicted to drugs see the need and want senario. The first example of people dealing with choices they made in their lives that were driven by their needs and wants was the character Mathilde from the short story ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant. Mathilde thought that she needed money, and all the expensive things

“All drugs of abuse trigger a surge of dopamine – a rush of “wanting” – in the brain. This makes us crave more drugs. With repeated drug use, the “wanting” grows, while our “liking” of the drug appears to stagnate or even decrease, a phenomenon known as tolerance.” (The Real Reason Some People Become Addicted To Drugs, Mike Robinson September 29, 2017) This piece of the article “The Real Reason People Become Addicted To Drugs” by Mike Robinson explains what addicted people feel when their body feels as if it needs the substance. When a surge of need for example a need for a drug, goes through someone's body they do not really think about what is happening next all they think about is that need for that drug but, when something that someone actually needs pops into their mind for example food, when that person thinks that they do not really need that item it keeps the person more confused about the difference between need and