1.Different Growing Background
A: Rich ; privileged environment
B:Poor ; discrimination
2.Different Fate Because of Social Reality
Tolerate Struggle
misfortune for the society
• The novel
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.TOonptihc:e Tragicomedy of Rebecca in
Vanity Fair
By Sai Na
Brief Introduction
The Whole Thesis
Literature Review
Analysis of
Rebecca
Compare with
Amelia
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Characteristics of Vanity Fair
• Vanity Fair has a sub-title, A Novel Without a Hero, which intends to portray the bourgeois and aristocratic society as a whole.
• Everyone wishes to gain something in Vanity Fair and acts almost in the same manner as Rebecca.
The Comparison with Amelia
simple, sentimental, weak, but good at heart
•.
characters
Amelia Sedley Rebecca Sharp
a bourgeois society
cunning, immoral and quick-witted (随机应变的) shrewd, unscrupulous, sophisticated(世故的 )
T one of the greatest critical realists of the 19th century Europe.
His Life
. born in India 5 years
sent to England Cambridge
Indian Company official
cartoon drawing satirical verses edited a student paper 1830, without a degree
His Life
success in Writing career
failure in his life
1. tragic marriage
2. neglected by Mother 3. looked down upon by his peers
The Background
• . British society 19th A.The upper class B.The black-hearted
businessmen C.Some rich kids and officials
They were lost themselves in the
world of fame and fortune.
Realism 19th——the early 20th
☺A literary movement
•.
☺Against Romanticism and paved the way to Modernism
☺Critical realism
☺The Bourgeois Revolution→capitalist system
4. heart troubles
died of heart attack in London on Christmas Eve in 1863
His Literary Works
– 1) The Book of Snobs – 《势利人脸谱》《势利者集》 – 2) Vanity Fair – 《名利场》 – 3) The History of Pendennis – 《彭登尼斯》 – 4) The Newcomes – 《纽克姆一家》 _...
3.Dissimiliar Opinions Towards Love and Marriage
vital than everything
the tools going to the upper class
Conclusion
Why I choose this topic? • The movie
The Positive Personalities of Rebecca
• Intelligence and Capability
• Resourcefulness • A Feminism
Pioneer
The Negative Personalities of Rebecca
• Ambitions • All her scheming
and Sham • A mercenary
Person
Rebecca as a representive of the society
• In the novel, Rebecca is a classic example of this money-grubbing instinct(本能).