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1、William Makepeace Thackeray(18111863),Anne Becher Thackeray and William Thackeray at about age 2,Brief introduction,a, Thackeray is one of the greatest critical realists of the 19th century in Europe b, He paints(描绘) life as he has seen it, with his precise and through observation, rich knowledge of
2、 social life and of the human heart. The pictures in his novels are accurate and true to life.,C.Thackeray is a satirist. His satire is caustic（苛性）and his humor is subtle(精巧的),D.Beside being a realist and satirist. Thackeray is a moralist. His aim is to produce a moral impression in all his novels,F
3、amous saying,There is a skeleton in every house. 家家都有本难念的经 First catch your hare. 首先必须捕获兔子，然后才能宰之（先付出，才能有收获） Dare and the world always yields.if it beats you sometomes,dare it again and again and it will succumb. 大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果你有时候被它打败了，不断的挑战，它总会屈服的,Life Experience,Born in India Preparatory schools
4、Public school Trinity college,Cambridge Left without degree Study the law Study painting in Pairs As Paris correspondent Focus on series of writing,His Life Experience,success in writing career,failure in his life,1. tragic marriage,2. looked down upon by his peers,3. heart troubles,died of heart at
5、tack in London on Christmas Eve in 1863,Vanity Fair名利场 The Snob势利人 Catherine凯瑟琳 Barry Lyndon巴里 林登 The Virginians弗吉尼亚人 Dendennis潘丹尼斯的历史 Henry Edmond亨利 艾斯芒德 The Rose and the Ring玫瑰与戒指 The Roundabout Paper拐弯抹角的随笔 The Ballad of Bouillabaisse法国炖鱼民谣 The Great Hogg arty Diamond霍佳蒂钻石 The Yellow plush Corres
6、pondence尝试记者,Main Works,The Snob 势利人,Barry Lyndon 巴里 林登,The Rose and the Ring 玫瑰与戒指,The Virginians 弗吉尼亚人,Vanity Fair,Title: from Bunyans The Pilgrims progress. Subtitle: A novel without a hero.,Vanity Fair means a fair where all kinds of vanity are sold, such as houses,lands,honours,preferments,titl
7、es,lusts,pleasures and delights of all sorts.,Sharp,Amelia,George,Dobbin,Rawdon,Becky Sharp,Major Characters,Amelia:good-natured,sentimental,simple-minded George Osborne: snobbish, caustic（苛性的）,selfish, simple-minded Joseph Sadly: vain, self, effeminate(柔弱的) William Dobbin: good-natured, honest,Back
8、ground,The scene of the story is England in the first half of the 19th century. (Page193,para3),Main plot,The plot is built around the fates of Amelia Sadly and Rebecca(Becky)Sharp. Amelia is the daughter of a wealth London merchant; Rebecca is an orphan. Becky is determined to warm into upper socie
9、ty. And so she does by varieties of immoral means. Finally she lives a life like a grand lady. While Amelia, who also experiences ups and downs in her life, marries Dobbin who has given her his lifelong love, to reward him.,characters,Center figure: Rebecca Sharp She is a perfect embodiment(化身) of t
10、he spirit of Vanity Fair aspiration in life is to gain wealth and position by any means: through lies ,mean action, unscrupulous(无耻的）speculating with every sacred(神圣的)ideal.(page195,para3&4),Amelia and Dobbin may be considered as the position characters of the novel.,comments,A:In the novel Thackera
11、y describes the life of the ruling classes of England in the early decades of the 19th century,and attacks the social relationship of the bourgeois world by satirizing the individual in the different strata of the upper society. B:Becky Sharp is a classic example of the money- grubbing instinct,her
12、only aspiration in life is to gain wealth position by any means.Every wishes to gain something in the Vanity Fair and acts almost in the same manner as Becky. C:There are hardly any positive characters in Vanity Fair.,Theme,By depicting the lives of two contrasted girls, Thackeray gives us a satiric
13、al life view of the 19th century England. It is a corrupted in which money is the only thing worshipped. The novels title Vanity Fair is taken from Bunyans Pilgrims Progress, Bunyan means to expose the vices of his time and compares the society that time to a Vanity Fair. Here, Thackeray has the same purpose achieves the same effect by it. Thackerays intention to criticize was not just focus on the two heroines, but on the whole bourgeois and aristocratic society.,Thank you!,