The importance and significance of the illustrations of Thackeray in Vanity Fair文献综述

 2022-08-15 09:08

Literature Review

Vanity Fair is a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray which carrying the subtitle Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. He is one of the representatives of the English critical realistic writers. Vanity Fair is a masterpiece most enduring through time among Thackerayrsquo;s works. The story is about the boisterous upper middle class in the 19th century Britain. with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackerays interest in deconstructing his eras conventions regarding literary heroism. With the various characters, facial expression bishop. Thackeray rich libel, wisdom, good satire, Vanity Fair is funny and rev people thinking of the novel.

1. Analyses of vanity in Vanity Fair

Vanity of the emotion oh Hume is written by Liao Xiaorsquo;e introduce the negative and positive of vanity. In the negative aspect, Vanity can let love vain oneself develop lie, boast, ego and pride and other bad behavior and psychological characteristics, and these bad behaviors will give their psychological and physiological will bring serious harm. Vanity to bring harm not only to their own but also cause harm to others. For example, jealousy is because of vanity, is one of the manrsquo;s vanity means. Therefore, vanity makes people astray doping, it can be a person of evil, makes the person lose reason, moral decay, and even illegal crime, cause lifelong regret. In the positive of vanity Hume is his “theory of human nature” volume second emotions in the most talked about is some of the negative effects of vanity, but he still thinks the vanity also have some positive effects, and that the appropriate vanity also can bring certain benefits to self and others. This is mainly reflected in the third volume of morality. There are some opinions on positive vanity. To start with, dynamic effect of self-generated by vanity. Hume think what our hearts with adaptation of vanity can bring us the passion and belief in life, bring the motivation for our work.

2. The analyses of feminist in vanity Fair

Representation of female consciousness in Translation of Vanity Fair is written by Chen Meixia. With the development and Enlightenment England word asset class revolution, bourgeois and puts forward some ideas and theories, such as 'natural rights', “liberty, equality, fraternity” and so on, all have great influence on peoples ideology. In this social background, feminism emerged, many women no longer meet the restricted in patriarchal oppression, they stand up bravely against male, to enjoy equal rights with men in economic, political and cultural aspects, and through ways for public challenge to the male centered society.

Huang Xiaorong wrote features full use of word formation in this novel, the use of homophones or puns, so many names in the works have a sense of humor or symbolic meaning. The hostess name contains a sharp public Bega, sharp, shrewd, cunning, immoral, beautiful meaning. The author figures special nomenclature to describe characters to show the readers a beautiful, extremely selfish ruthless smart, willing to take any despicable means, even with their own beauty into society of petty bourgeois careerists image, but also reflects the authors writing style of humor, spicy.

3. Contact author Thackeray and his work

The moral innocence of Rebecca Sharp has been the focus of criticism. In 2011, Liu Fengshan pointed out in the article Thackeray and Beckys moral innocence: 'Thackerays attitude towards Rebecca was very contradictory, and there were both positive and negative.'. But whether she is innocent or not is the tool for Thackeray to explain his patriarchal consciousness and class morality. Thackerays identity, tolerance Rebeccarsquo;s behavior is because Rebecca generation he condemned the mid nineteenth Century British social class morality, negation, Rebecca is condemned because his actions threaten his attempts to defend the patriarchal order.

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