If we care to, we can learn to become better parents, better husbands, better wives, and better friends.
This voice of reason grounds us makes us understand the joy, the pain, the happiness, and the sorrow that accompanies each of us in our journey through life. Vanity Fair is with us, all around us and many times we never fully understand the roles that the players play. It seemed that at every opportune moment, the narrator took a step back and informed us, the reader, of some nugget, some little moral, that placed the actions of the participants in the Fair in context. To me, the narrator's voice in the novel was most amazing. It is her methods that vary from what you and I might use or do they? She can't help it, and nor should she is she really any different than any of us? No, she's not. No, Miss Rebecca Sharp sprang from the womb enlivened with her desire to claw her way to the top. This novel is not the coming of age, or bildungsroman, of Becky Sharp. The 'Hero' of Vanity Fair is the steadfast and stalwart William Dobbin of that there is no doubt. "Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero." I disagree with Thackeray. Here I am, 54 years old, and for the very first time reading William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. This edition includes over one hundred original illustrations by Thackeray. From London’s ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt’s dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky’s misguided sexual entanglements.įilled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations, Vanity Fair is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the reader, "Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?" Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. "I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year," observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest-and most appealing-women in all of literature.
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