“Poverty ”is never an ennobling experience
---- an analysis of two types of “poverty ”contained in the
novel
Almost every novel is subject to the scrutiny of reader s 'preferences. Probably for some psychological reason, we readers often feel inclined to scout in a novel for a protagonist who can feed our desire to fix affection on someone. Then a bitter chasm between our favorite and other overshadowed characters subtly emerges and gradually gets increasingly unbridgeable. Just like in Vanity Fair , Amelia Sedley, all grace and generosity, never fails to become a magnet for the vast majority of readers while seemingly as a rule, Becky Sharp, snobbish and sophisticated, only gets besieged by overwhelming contempt and apparently justified condemnation. In order to climb out of poverty, Becky turned herself into a mean girl, toying and flirting with any prospective “ladder ”by which she could ascend to the upper class. In this sense, Becky 's cunning stemmed from material poverty which failed to inoculate her against the giddy heights of vanity. However, despite being born of an affluent family, Amelia also suffered from abject poverty derived from her lack of a worthwhile life goal to live and contend for. In my following demonstration, I 'd like to expatiate on these two types of poverty.
Frankly speaking, throughout the novel, Becky wins my most appreciation. The impoverished family background divested her of ingenuous feelings towards the society where only money talked, rendering her vulnerable to disdain and
hardly immune from the eroding temptation of attaining wealth and high social status regardless of anything. Actually, despite her pursuit of the upper class, Becky。