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Introduction
Vanity Fair is a book written by British author William Makepeace Thackeray. ...
Abstract
This research paper is about a book named Vanity Fair. ...
Vanity Fair
Novel without a Hero
Vanity Fair, Williams Makepeace Thackeray¡¯s first as well as the most important masterpiece, wins great popularity for him. ... Though its setting is England during and after the Napoleonic Wars, its panoramic view of folly and vanity is universal. ...
Compared with the title, Vanity Fair, the subtitle means more. It points to the author¡¯s intention to portray, not individuals singly, but the whole of the notorious ¡°vanity fair,¡± a common noun bestowed new meanings by Thackeray since then, which describes English bourgeois and aristocratic society. ... The central figure is Rebecca sharp, who is a perfect embodiment of the spirit of Vanity Fair as her only aspiration in life is to gain wealth and position by any means; Amelia and Dobbin may be the positive characters to some extent. ... Becky Sharp, the Marquis of Steyne, Sir Pitt Crawley and the whole Crawley family, Amelia, the Osborne¡¯s, Major Dobbin, not to mention others, are as well known to most cultivated people as their most intimate acquaintances in the Vanity Fair of the actual world. ... This view is narrow, and by no means covers all the facts of history and human life, but what relative truth it has is splendidly illustrated in Vanity Fair.
In Vanity Fair, Thackeray draws a broad panorama of social life, ruthlessly criticizing money worship, cruelty and scrupulousness, which actually go to extreme. ... Certainly, however, ¡°Vanity Fair¡± might stand as the title of every one of his books.
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