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Vanity Fair
Vanity fair is a novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray . It tells that a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things. Thakeray profoundly exposes the social evils and reality of the times through realism and satire in this book .
In this novel , the relator and the reader both have a new eyeshot which is different from the dialog environment in 18th century and discovering the multivocal object by readers in 20th century . The reader is asked to followed the relator's direction to find out the writer's view . The relator always breaks in the story to remark on his opinion in order to talk with readers . Thackeray said : " The aim of the tragedy and poetry is to invoke various feelingsmuch emphasis on “ nature and truth ” . His writing style is so masculine , felicitous , humorous and pleasant . It touches me so deep .
The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the principal protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square. In this novel , there are two keys . The keys are two girls life . Becky Sharp, who is the heroine, or more correctly the anti-heroine, is an clever young woman with a gift for satire . She has a lot of upper-class skills. But she is completely amoral and without conscience as well . She seems not to have the ability to get attached to the others , and often lies easily and intelligently to get what she want . She is extremely manipulative , and at first her failure to attract Jos Sedley, is not shown as being particularly honest . Never having known financial or social security even as a child , she want everything . Strangely , Becky Becky manipulates men very easily, but she does never try to keep the friendship of most women. So Lady Jane, and Lady Steyne see right through her. But Amelia and Miss Crawley are exceptions to the rule. The other lady is Amelia Sedley , who is Becky's opposite . She is pale, passive, and emotionally devoted to her husband and son. She is completely dominated by her spendthrift parents . Surely she becomes a upper-class all because of them , but her sorrow also comes from that . After George Osborne's death, she is obsessed with her son and with the memory of her husband. Amelia ignores William Dobbin, who courts her for years, and treats him unfairly until he leaves at last . It is only after Becky shows her George's letter to her that Amelia realizes what a good man Dobbin is . Finally , she write to him to ask him to come back. And she eventually marries Dobbin.
The subtitle, "A Novel without a Hero ", is apt because the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree; even the most sympathetic have weaknesses . The human's weaknesses that Thackeray illustrates are mostly to do with greed, idleness, and snobbery, and the scheming, deceit and hypocrisy which mask them. None of the characters are wholly evil, though. Even Becky, who is amoral and cunning, is also because of poverty and its stigma. Thackeray's tendency to highlight faults in all of his characters displays his desire for a greater level of realism in his fiction compared to the rather unlikely or idealised people in many contemporary novels.

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