Vanity Fair
- Seeker
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min read
Becky Sharp is the strong-willed, self-reliant daughter of a poor alcoholic art teacher. Amelia ‘Emmy’ Sedley, Becky’s friend, is the good-natured and passive daughter of a wealthy investor. The two girls become good friends at finishing school and each goes on many misadventures filled with love and family to find their place in the world. A Novel without a Hero is the subtitle of Vanity Fair, which is a more than fitting description of its characters. The characters in Vanity Fair are not like the idealized characters of other novels because Thackeray wanted to employ more realism in his writing. Each character is not without flaws. Thackeray satirizes the upper class of England to reveal their greed, snobbery, deceit, and hypocrisy that masks them from judgment.
Publication
Author - William Makepeace Thackeray
Country - United Kingdom
Language - English
Genre - Satire, Social Criticism, Deconstruction
Publication date - 1847-1848
Comments