As for Amelia, her story centers around her ill-fated relationship with George Osborne – who she has been engaged to since childhood and is set to marry soon. Encountering many members of the high classes while staying at Amelia Sedley’s house in London, Becky starts to calculate her actions based on how they could increase her chances in gaining a higher status. In the novels of Thackeray, essay is so much mixed up with narrative, and comment with characterization, that they. These early contacts made her aware of the divide between herself and those from the higher classes. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray.
She has grown up mingling with members of the middle and upper classes. Vanity Fair also focuses on the people who populate that world, including Amelia, who in many ways lives out a parallel life to Becky’s.īecky is determined to make her way in society. He focuses on Becky’s rise to the top of Victorian England’s shallow upper-class society and her swift fall. In this timeless classic, Thackery reflects his social criticisms on to the story.
Amelia has led a very privileged life whereas Becky has always struggled with not being upper class and knows she must charm and manipulate others to make her way through the world. After leaving school, she stays with her friend Amelia the daughter of a wealthy family in London. Becky Sharp is the orphan daughter of an artist and dancer, not coming from much wealth, she has a striving ambition to attain a higher social status. The story is about the lives of two young women from completely different backgrounds and families. ‘Vanity Fair’ by William Makepeace Thackeray is a 19th century fiction.
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