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Vanity Fair

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grapevine India (November 22, 2022)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 22, 2022


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 1279 KB


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled


Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • The Goddess Fortuna Looks Down on Mere Mortals
The ancients had a vibrant notion that unfortunately has become cliche in our culture: the wheel of fortune. As we mortals strive, grasp and scheme to achieve social status, the wheel spins, the goddess looks down and the fates of many revolve landing wherever there may. Such a Christian influenced but ultimately pagan view of humanity is depicted in Vanity Fair. The pleasantries, hypocrisies and egotisms of humanity has rarely been so starkly depicted. But Thackeray provides no alternative of a spiritual life. Instead, human society, the pride of nineteenth century Britain, is seen to be little more than an anthill, with busy actors running around frantically building nothing of great importance. Connected to this is Thackeray’s feminism. He is the rare nineteenth century author that, while pointing out the differences between men and women, dares to make the smartest character a woman all the while depicting most of the men as fools. I don’t mean to suggest a twentieth century feminism based on ideas of equality and rights—but it is a feminism nonetheless. And it goes hand in hand with the sense that the men running the world are nothing but blowhards. While I didn’t empathize strongly with any of the characters, Vanity Fair is one of the great novels in the English language. And, I must say that, despite not sympathizing with the protagonists, I was interested enough to keep turning eight hundred pages plus. Vanity Fair has taught generations of readers the age old lesson of vanity of vanities. It’s a lesson many of us could heed even today. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2022 by Aran Joseph Canes
    • A Litmus test of character
Vanity Fair, as the author intends it to do, provides an opportunity to examine in sarcastic detail many of the failings common in human character, making it as relevant today as when it is written, even if the cultural context is far removed. I read a lot of classic fiction and fan-fiction of the Austen and Dickens variety, so I didn't find myself confused about the way society shaped the events of the story, or needing footnotes, but I can see why a lot of people would want that. The author chooses all his character names carefully-- his side characters are comparable to Dickensian names, and also showcase the influence of Pilgrim's Progress (Mrs. Slingstone, Mr. Tapeworm). Rebecca means "snare or trap," which is very much what she is. Any man given over to a vice is sure to be trapped in her web, since she is both intuitive enough to pick up on them, and intelligent enough to make use of them as tools (or weapons) to manipulate, cheat, and rob others of their wealth. Others have said that this book is not "pious" with great relief. While religion is never referred to directly, outside of some characters attending church and pompous sermonizing by one of the Crawley sons, you should notice through the narrator's caustic speeches and the flaws that lead to the downfall of his characters over time, that the book DOES have a specific code of morals it wants to promote, and it is clear that love, integrity, truth, compassion, but without naivete is the goal. Becky Sharp and her lies, manipulation, and ability to convince people of her purity of heart test the character of all those she encounters. If they have an idol, she will use it against them for her own profit. Naivete, lust, greed, ambition, vanity, gluttony, pride, sentimentality, fear, foolishness, gambling, amusement at the expense of others, idolization of another person... To the extent that a person has given themselves over to these things without limiting their excess in themselves, so Ms. Sharp will use it as a stepping stone to gain wealth, material goods, shelter, credit, or social status. The only people Becky is completely herself with without a facade are her headmistress from her school and her son, and we see how she "hates all lovers of children" results in some of the other characters coming to see her for what she is. Ultimately we must conclude that Becky cares much less for wealth than the game itself. She becomes terribly bored when she gets everything she wants---and prefers the life of vice and uncertainty she leads by the end of the book. This book is full of characters who are foils for one another, and between many of whom we are meant to see parabolic connections: Amelia and Becky; Lady Jane and Becky, Lady Jane and Amelia, Captain Dobbin and Amelia, captain Crawley and his brother, mr. Osborne and Mr. Sedley... And more! This work takes a lot of time for the flaws in the characters to overtake them and reach their natural conclusion... My favorite moment is when William Dobbin, the closest thing to a hero, as he never once falls for Becky Sharp's wiles, sets up a much needed boundary with Amelia that will require her to discard the idol of her long-dead, gambling, philanderer of a husband and return his love with all her heart to ever see him again. Not only is he the only one to cast down his idol (loving Amelia) of his own accord, in doing so, he enables her to want to set herself free, as well as (surprisingly) inspiring Becky to help her out by forcing the truth about George on Amelia. Which is not entirely unselfish (it's Becky, after all...), since Amelia leaves Jos Sedley alone to be Becky's prey once she marries Major Dobbin. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2021 by Bethany French
    • All is vanity!
For years I had been putting off reading Thackeray's magnum opus, "Vanity Fair." Not that I dreaded reading it-in fact, quite the contrary, as I knew that what awaited in its pages was surely a treasure trove of wit. But since it is lengthier than your average novel (800+ pages in the Penguin edition), I waited to read this, choosing to reserve it for a time in my life when I could do so uninterrupted and with the utmost leisure. This set the stakes quite high, and I had my apprehensions that perhaps they were a bit too high. (I've been disappointed before with a handful of other books that I had put off reading but which ended up not being what I had expected.) Wow, did Mr. Thackeray ever deliver! This book was absolutely worth the wait and, in fact, exceeded my expectations! The novel chronicles the fortunes and mishaps of two childhood friends, Amelia Sedley and Rebecca Sharpe: one a hopeless romantic, the other an incorrigible opportunist. Come along with them on their unforgettable journey (or puppet show, as Thackeray would have us view it) as they graduate from charm school, marry, endure the Battle of Waterloo, bear children and much more! Of course, no Victorian novel of this magnitude would be complete without a diverse cast of supporting characters: the dutiful Capt. Dobbin, the narcissistic civilian Jos Sedley, the petulant and slowly-dying Miss Crawley, the reproachable Lord Steyne, the vociferous Mrs. Peggy O’Dowd and many others. For Thackeray, each character fits squarely into the ambient setting which he calls Vanity Fair, in homage to Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” a place meant to satirize pre-Victorian England (and its successors). Vanity has two distinct meanings here, which Thackeray so carefully weaves together. On the one hand, the people of Vanity Fair are vain in the sense of being egotistical. Their ego requires satisfaction whether by a position in society, or wealth, or the love of a woman; as they strive to attain one or more of these, they must conceal their object-in-view from everyone else. It is this other sense of “vanity” that Thackeray satirizes; i.e., futility. All these attempts at conniving, dissembling, and then arriving at one’s end never yield long-term happiness. Thackeray’s style is inimitable and perhaps may best be described as playfully sardonic. He is rarely ever serious and uses hyperbole to no end. This style sets him apart from his contemporaries. Where Hardy is tragic, he is realistic; where Eliot is subtly deprecatory, he is outwardly so; where Dickens longs for Christianity, he revels in being a heathen. And of course, one of the most recognizable devices in his writing is the tangent, never without purpose and always without apology. Some of these may be readily skipped over but some are worth reading, if only to get a good laugh. Indulge Thackeray in some of these and you will not be disappointed! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2018 by Dutch

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