To Lie or Not to Lie

To lie or not to lie, that is the question.

                               
Do you lie? Or do you tell the truth?

     

          Well to be honest, there are going to be consequences regardless of what you choose to do. But the severity of the consequences can be made worse or better depending on what you chose. But what is the right thing to do? Is the right thing to lie? To tell the truth? I think the right thing to do is to tell the truth, something Madam Mathilde Loisel in Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace did not do.

                                                     

          Madam Mathilde Loisel seems to be made to experience the luxuries of life, but there was a "mistake of destiny" which bore her into a poor little family of clerks. But Mathilde gets a glimpse into the luxuries she so desires through a necklace of diamonds lent to her by a rich friend, Madame Forestier. The diamond necklace, to Madam Mathilde, symbolizes all that she doesn't have and all that she desires. And when she looses the necklace, instead of telling the truth to Madam Forestier, Mathilde decides to lie and replace the necklace with a new, thirty-six thousand franc, diamond necklace. But the replacement of the necklace did not come without great sacrifice and consequence. Mon. and Mme. Loisel's lives are now debt ridden. There is no pleasure in their lives. Mon. and Mm. Loisel, for ten years, endure agonizing work and drown in the circles and circles of notes until the debt is gone. At the end of the ten years, Mathilde had "become the woman of impoverished households - strong and hard and rough," which is a complete change from the young, delicate, beautiful woman she was before all of this. And she could have stayed just like that, young and beautiful. How? If she had not lied to Mme. Forestier, Mme. Loisel would have known that the necklace she had lost, which she had spent thirty-six thousand francs on was fake and worth, at most, five hundred francs.

         When you lie, you not only avoid your truth, but the other truths involved. If Mathilde had told the truth of losing the necklace in the beginning, she would have known the truth about the necklace. And if she had known the truth of the necklace, her and her husband's lives wouldn't have been taken over and ruined by debt. So, to lie or not to lie. Although telling the truth may be hard to do, I think you can avoid so much if you just come out with it. There's no need to try and hide the mistakes you've made when telling lies is only going to exasperate what you've done when someone eventually finds out the truth or something unnecessary is done because of the lie you told. All in all, lies don't do anything but harm. In the moment, lying may seem like a good idea to avoid something but they always come back around to bite you. And most people who have lied knows this to be true. So, the right thing to do is to tell the truth, despite the consequences you might receive for doing so because those consequences will only be exasperated if you decide to lie.