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V anity FairREBECCA SHARP：贝姬·夏普AMELIA SEDLEY：艾米利亚·塞德利RAWDON CRAWLEY ：罗顿·考利GEORGE OSBORNE：乔治·奥斯本PITT CRAWLEY ：彼特•克劳利JOSEPH SEDLEY乔思福赛得利Reading V anity Fair is a process full of pleasure and motivation. The heroine, REBECCA SHARP , succeeds in conquering millions of readers including me by her bravery ,by her perseverance , by her tact ,by her resolution .as the final of thenovel ,Women like REBECCA is worthwhile to live a happy life.The essence of love deserves a discussion and reflection here. Appearance? possession? To me, neither. Miss Ingram, undoubtedly, a wealthy, pretty and accomplished lady from the first class, is described by Mr.Rochester as one of those “women who please me only by their faces. They open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper. ”In addition, the repeated proposal of the handsome, ambitious St.John comes across Jane’s stable refusal. These plots are expected to get out of a conventional stereotype that appearance and possession count most. In Jane Eyre , love is only based on internal appreciation. It is Jane’s virtue that brings light to all around her---kinship, friendship and romance.During the period of winter holidays I have read a novel "Vanity Fair "Main circumstance of the novel may include two clues: a clue depicts the deceased poor painter's daughter Becky after leaving Pingkedun woman boarding school stays temporarily at a rich family of Miss Amelia home but she try to seduce Amelia 's elderbrother to enter go od society. After this matter failed Becky comes to Pitt C rawley’s home as family teacher at the same time she plays some cute means such as being unctuous and ganging with to good use. But when Pitt makes a proposal to Becky after losing spouse ,she has already married knight's son Rawdon. Another clue writes pure girl Amelia being deeply in love of theofficer George Osborne surmounts all obstacles finally getting married with him . But her husband abandons her very quickly right away. Amelia is spoony to George even if after her husband died she still is unwilling to get remarried to others. Finally Becky tells the fact that George made an appointment with herself to elope before hisdeath .Amelia agree to get married. Becky being abandoned because perso nal relationship is found that by the husband afterwards. Her old age gets a sum of inheritance from another lover Joseph in hand charities beginning to be enthusiastic in.I have to admit this story is very real. Person inside V anity Fair is unable to see clearly.Everybody all longs for money and position. Once you have owned one ofthem ,the other person all show special respect for you. The Dobbin uses a lifetime of love to have waited until his loved one come to his hug .He dedicates his youth and time to the pitiful people in vanity fair. But the final is good . I think the author can’t bear to let good person suffer hardships .So in his novel the kind people has got happiness that has come in and gone out of in the vanity fair for those who areavaricious ,selfish ,foolish and proud . A man of no scruples has got due retribution. I have read the final for several times with a little bit happy and a little bit grieved. This is not only a novel but also a society in miniature. It does not just exist in the united kingdom at that time it but also in today. Who is not encumbered with the fame and fortune? Theothers in today ’society also persue this. while the material life problem does not solve whom does go after a kind of fabulous pure ideal? Therefore the purpose that the college student studies this novel is to introduce students to look up upon one person withspecial respect . Certainly this does not alternate and we all are nobody that destiny hits the target personally. Considering self social status ,considering how to promote self social status.,people is able to go to adore other people only talking those prominent persons .If you does not go and compose ,while there is somebody going and composing.。

A Book Report on Vanity FairName: Class: Date:Author: William M. ThackerayPublisher:航空工业出版社Place of publication:北京Time of publication: 2007Summary:Amelia Sedley and Rebecca Sharn were good friends, and they had completed their studies. They were preparing to depart for Amelia’s house in Russell Square and to live out their lives in “Vanity Fair”. Rebecca was an orphan; she was poor but very beautiful and ingenious. Amelia is the daughter of a rich City merchant. Rebecca was longing for the life of upper class and she took advantages of her beauty and intelligence to make it. In 1815, the two girls got married. Rebecca made full use of her husband Rawdon to meet many famous nobles in order to enter the Vanity Fair. In the meantime, Amelia was enjoying her newlywed with her husband George. However, the Battle of Waterloo made Amelia become widow and the two girls’ fates had begun to change. Rawdon had clearly known Rebecca’s voracity and departed from her. Rebecca found her place in society almost in the end. At the end of the story, Amelia led a happy life and Rebecca lost everything.Thoughts and feelings:There is a sentence that I learn from Vanity Fair: Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read -- who had the habits and the cunning of a boor; who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but what was disgusting and foul; and yet in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the man of most brilliant genius or spotless virtue. I think some people in this book are just behaving like this.After read Vanity Fair I have learnt that in the 18th century, the British were crazy for fame and fortune. They all hoped to enter into the Vanity Fair. But, I do hate the Vanity Fair, because in Vanity Fair, everyone exchanges with other people with masks. What they have seen is also not true. To tell you the truth, I look down upon Rebecca. She has been polluted by the Vanity Fair. I wonder if she ever regards Amelia as her best friend and shows her true care to Amelia. I have to admit that Rebecca is very ingenious. She knows how to attract men’s attention and lies easily and intelligently to get her way. Nearly everything she does is with the intention to secure a stable position for her. Maybe, Rebecca just wants to live a rich life, but the method is wrong and I think she deserves the ending.。

CHAPTER XLVIIIIn Which the Reader Is Introduced to the V eryBest of CompanyAt last Becky's kindness and attention to the chief ofher husband's family were destined to meet with an exceeding great reward, a reward which, though certainly somewhat unsubstantial, the little woman coveted with greater eagerness than more positive benefits. If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no ladyin the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. And as dubious goods or letters are passed through an ovenat quarantine, sprinkled with aromatic vinegar, and then pronounced clean, many a lady, whose reputation would be doubtful otherwise and liable to give infection, passes through the wholesome ordeal of the Royal presence and issues from it free from all taint.It might be very well for my Lady Bareacres, myLady Tufto, Mrs. Bute Crawley in the country, and other ladies who had come into contact with Mrs. Rawdon Crawley to cry fie at the idea of the odious little adventuress making her curtsey before the Sovereign, and to declare that, if dear good Queen Charlotte had been alive, she never would have admitted such an extremelyill-regulated personage into her chaste drawing-room. But when we consider that it was the First Gentleman in Europe in whose high presence Mrs. Rawdon passed her examination, and as it were, took her degree in reputation, it surely must be flat disloyalty to doubt any moreabout her virtue. I, for my part, look back with love and awe to that Great Character in history. Ah, what a high and noble appreciation of Gentlewomanhood there must have been in V anity Fair, when that revered and august being was invested, by the universal acclaim of the refined and educated portion of this empire, with the title of Premier Gentilhomme of his Kingdom. Do you remember, dear M--, oh friend of my youth, how one blissful night five-and-twenty years since, the "Hypocrite" being acted, Elliston being manager, Dowton and Liston performers, two boys had leave from their loyal mastersto go out from Slaughter-House School where they were educated and to appear on Drury Lane stage, amongst a crowd which assembled there to greet the king. THE KING? There he was. Beefeaters were before the august box; the Marquis of Steyne (Lord of the Powder Closet) and other great officers of state were behind the chair on which he sat, HE sat--florid of face, portly of person, covered with orders, and in a rich curling head of hair--how we sang God save him! How the house rocked and shouted with that magnificent music. How they cheered, and cried, and waved handkerchiefs. Ladies wept; mothers clasped their children; some fainted with emotion. People were suffocated in the pit, shrieks and groans rising up amidst the writhing and shouting mass there of his people who were, and indeed showed them- selves almost to be, ready to die for him. Y es, we saw him. Fate cannot deprive us of THA T. Others have seen Napoleon. Some few still exist who have beheld Frederick the Great, Doctor Johnson, Marie Antoinette, &c.--be itour reasonable boast to our children, that we saw George the Good, the Magnificent, the Great.Well, there came a happy day in Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's existence when this angel was admitted into theparadise of a Court which she coveted, her sister-in-law acting as her godmother. On the appointed day, Sir Pitt and his lady, in their great family carriage (just newly built, and ready for the Baronet's assumption of theoffice of High Sheriff of his county), drove up to the little house in Curzon Street, to the edification of Raggles, who was watching from his greengrocer's shop, and saw fine plumes within, and enormous bunches of flowers in the breasts of the new livery-coats of the footmen.Sir Pitt, in a glittering uniform, descended and wentinto Curzon Street, his sword between his legs. Little Rawdon stood with his face against the parlour window- panes, smiling and nodding with all his might to his auntin the carriage within; and presently Sir Pitt issued forth from the house again, leading forth a lady with grand feathers, covered in a white shawl, and holding updaintily a train of magnificent brocade. She stepped into the vehicle as if she were a princess and accustomed all herlife to go to Court, smiling graciously on the footman atthe door and on Sir Pitt, who followed her into thecarriage.Then Rawdon followed in his old Guards' uniform,which had grown woefully shabby, and was much too tight. He was to have followed the procession and waited upon his sovereign in a cab, but that his good-natured sister-in-law insisted that they should be a family party. The coach was large, the ladies not very big, they would hold their trains in their laps--finally, the four went fraternally together, and their carriage presently joinedthe line of royal equipages which was making its way down Piccadilly and St. James's Street, towards the old brick palace where the Star of Brunswick was in waitingto receive his nobles and gentlefolks.Becky felt as if she could bless the people out of the carriage windows, so elated was she in spirit, and so strong a sense had she of the dignified position whichshe had at last attained in life. Even our Becky had her weaknesses, and as one often sees how men pride themselves upon excellences which others are slow to perceive: how, for instance, Comus firmly believes that he is the greatest tragic actor in England; how Brown, thefamous novelist, longs to be considered, not a man of genius, but a man of fashion; while Robinson, the great lawyer, does not in the least care about his reputation in Westminster Hall, but believes himself incomparable across country and at a five-barred gate--so to be, andto be thought, a respectable woman was Becky's aim in life, and she got up the genteel with amazing assiduity, readiness, and success. We have said, there were times when she believed herself to be a fine lady and forgot that there was no money in the chest at home--duns round the gate, tradesmen to coax and wheedle--no ground to walk upon, in a word. And as she went to Court in the carriage, the family carriage, she adopted a demeanour so grand, self-satisfied, deliberate, and imposing that it made even Lady Jane laugh. She walked into the royal apartments with a toss of the head which would have befitted an empress, and I have no doubt had she been one, she would have become the character perfectly..We are authorized to state that Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's costume de cour on the occasion of her presentationto the Sovereign was of the most elegant and brilliantdescription. Some ladies we may have seen--wewho wear stars and cordons and attend the St. James's assemblies, or we, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall and peep into the coaches as they drive up with the great folks in their feathers--some ladies of fashion, I say, we may have seen, about two o'clock of the forenoon of a levee day, as the laced-jacketed bandof the Life Guards are blowing triumphal marches seated on those prancing music-stools, their cream-coloured chargers--who are by no means lovely and enticing objects at that early period of noon. A stout countess of sixty, decolletee, painted, wrinkled with rouge up to her drooping eyelids, and diamonds twinkling in her wig, is a wholesome and edifying, but not a pleasant sight. She has the faded look of a St. James's Street illumination, as it may be seen of an early morning, when half the lamps are out, and the others are blinking wanly, as if they were about to vanish like ghosts before the dawn. Such charms as those of which we catch glimpses while her ladyship's carriage passes should appear abroad at night alone. If even Cynthia looks haggard of an afternoon, as we may see her sometimes in the present winter season,with Phoebus staring her out of countenance from the opposite side of the heavens, how much more can old Lady Castlemouldy keep her head up when the sun is shining full upon it through the chariot windows, and showing all the chinks and crannies with which time has marked her face! No. Drawing-rooms should be announced for November, or the first foggy day, or the elderly sultanas of our V anity Fair should drive up in closed litters, descend in a covered way, and make their curtsey to the Sovereign under the protection of lamplight. Our beloved Rebecca had no need, however, of anysuch a friendly halo to set off her beauty. Her complexion could bear any sunshine as yet, and her dress, though if you were to see it now, any present lady of V anity Fair would pronounce it to be the most foolish and preposterous attire ever worn, was as handsome in her eyesand those of the public, some five-and-twenty years since, as the most brilliant costume of the most famous beautyof the present season. A score of years hence that too, that milliner's wonder, will have passed into the domainof the absurd, along with all previous vanities. But we are wandering too much. Mrs. Rawdon's dress waspronounced to be charmante on the eventful day of her presentation. Even good little Lady Jane was forced to acknowledge this effect, as she looked at her kinswoman, and owned sorrowfully to herself that she was quite inferior in taste to Mrs. Becky.9.She did not know how much care, thought, and genius Mrs. Rawdon had bestowed upon that garment. Rebecca had as good taste as any milliner in Europe, and such a clever way of doing things as Lady Jane little understood. The latter quickly spied out the magnificence of the brocade of Becky's train, and the splendour of the lace on her dress.The brocade was an old remnant, Becky said; and asfor the lace, it was a great bargain. She had had it these hundred years.11."My dear Mrs. Crawley, it must have cost a little fortune," Lady Jane said, looking down at her own lace, which was not nearly so good; and then examining the quality of the ancient brocade which formed the material of Mrs. Rawdon's Court dress, she felt inclined to say that she could not afford such fine clothing, but checked that speech, with an effort, as one uncharitableto her kinswoman.12.And yet, if Lady Jane had known all, I think even her kindly temper would have failed her. The fact is, when she was putting Sir Pitt's house in order, Mrs. Rawdon had found the lace and the brocade in old wardrobes,the property of the former ladies of the house, and had quietly carried the goods home, and had suited them to her own little person. Briggs saw her take them, asked no questions, told no stories; but I believe quite sympathised with her on this matter, and so wouldmany another honest woman.13.And the diamonds--"Where the doose did you get the diamonds, Becky?" said her husband, admiring some jewels which he had never seen before and which sparkled in her ears and on her neck with brilliance and profusion. Becky blushed a little and looked at him hard for a moment. Pitt Crawley blushed a little too, and looked out of window. The fact is, he had given her a very small portion of the brilliants; a pretty diamond clasp, which confined a pearl necklace which she wore- and the Baronet had omitted to mention the circumstance tohis lady.15.Becky looked at her husband, and then at Sir Pitt,with an air of saucy triumph--as much as to say, "ShallI betray you?""Guess!" she said to her husband. "Why, you silly man," she continued, "where do you suppose I got them? --all except the little clasp, which a dear friend of mine gave me long ago. I hired them, to be sure. I hired them at Mr. Polonius's, in Coventry Street. Y ou don't suppose that all the diamonds which go to Court belong to the wearers; like those beautiful stones which Lady Jane has, and which are much handsomer than any which I have,I am certain."They are family jewels," said Sir Pitt, again looking uneasy. And in this family conversation the carriage rolled down the street, until its cargo was finally discharged at the gates of the palace where the Sovereign was sitting in state.The diamonds, which had created Rawdon's admiration, never went back to Mr. Polonius, of Coventry Street, and that gentleman never applied for their restoration, butthey retired into a little private repository, in an old desk, which Amelia Sedley had given her years and years ago, and in which Becky kept a number of useful and, perhaps, valuable things, about which her husbandknew nothing. To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from lastyear's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!19.Thus Rawdon knew nothing about the brilliant diamond ear-rings, or the superb brilliant ornament which decorated the fair bosom of his lady; but Lord Steyne, who was in his place at Court, as Lord of the Powder Closet, and one of the great dignitaries and illustrious defences of the throne of England, and came up with allhis stars, garters, collars, and cordons, and paid particular attention to the little woman, knew whence the jewelscame and who paid for them.20.As he bowed over her he smiled, and quoted the hackneyed and beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda's diamonds, "which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.""But I hope your lordship is orthodox," said the littlelady with a toss of her head. And many ladies roundabout whispered and talked, and many gentlemen nodded and whispered, as they saw what marked attention thegreat nobleman was paying to the little adventuress.22.What were the circumstances of the interview between Rebecca Crawley, nee Sharp, and her Imperial Master,it does not become such a feeble and inexperienced penas mine to attempt to relate. The dazzled eyes close before that Magnificent Idea. Loyal respect and decency tell even the imagination not to look too keenly and audaciouslyabout the sacred audience-chamber, but to back away rapidly, silently, and respectfully, making profoundbows out of the August Presence.23.This may be said, that in all London there was no more loyal heart than Becky's after this interview. The name of her king was always on her lips, and he was proclaimed by her to be the most charming of men. She went to Colnaghi's and ordered the finest portrait of him that art had produced, and credit could supply. She chose that famous one in which the best of monarchs is represented in a frock-coat with a fur collar, and breeches and silk stockings, simpering on a sofa from under his curly brown wig. She had him painted in a brooch and wore it--indeed she amused and somewhat pestered heracquaintance with her perpetual talk about his urbanity and beauty. Who knows! Perhaps the little woman thought she might play the part of a Maintenon or a Pompadour.But the finest sport of all after her presentation was tohear her talk virtuously. She had a few female acquaintances, not, it must be owned, of the very highest reputationin V anity Fair. But being made an honest woman of,so to speak, Becky would not consort any longer withthese dubious ones, and cut Lady Crackenbury when the latter nodded to her from her opera-box, and gave Mrs. Washington White the go-by in the Ring. "One must, my dear, show one is somebody," she said. "One mustn't be seen with doubtful people. I pity Lady Crackenbury from my heart, and Mrs. Washington White may be a verygood-natured person. YOU may go and dine with them,as you like your rubber. But I mustn't, and won't; andyou will have the goodness to tell Smith to say I am notat home when either of them calls."The particulars of Becky's costume were in the newspapers--feathers, lappets, superb diamonds, and all therest. Lady Crackenbury read the paragraph in bitternessof spirit and discoursed to her followers about the airswhich that woman was giving herself. Mrs. Bute Crawley and her young ladies in the country had a copy of the Morning Post from town, and gave a vent to their honestindignation. "If you had been sandy-haired, green-eyed,and a French rope-dancer's daughter," Mrs. Bute saidto her eldest girl (who, on the contrary, was a veryswarthy, short, and snub-nosed young lady), "Y ou mighthave had superb diamonds forsooth, and have beenpresented at Court by your cousin, the Lady Jane. But you'reonly a gentlewoman, my poor dear child. Y ou have onlysome of the best blood in England in your veins, andgood principles and piety for your portion. I, myself,the wife of a Baronet's younger brother, too, neverthought of such a thing as going to Court--nor wouldother people, if good Queen Charlotte had been alive."In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself, andher daughters sighed and sat over the Peerage all night.译文蓓基对于克劳莱的一家之主那一番关切和殷勤，总算得到了极大的酬报。

The story opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the principal protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square. Becky is portrayed as a strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in society, and Amelia Sedley as a good-natured, loveable, though simple-minded young girl.At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing andself-obsessed Captain George Osborne (to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil-servant fresh from the East India Company. Becky entices Sedley, hoping to marry him, but she fails because of warnings from Captain Osborne, Sedley's own native shyness, and his embarrassment over some foolish drunken behavior of his that Becky had witnessed at Vauxhall.With this, Becky Sharp says farewell to Sedley's family and enters the service of the crude and profligate baronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters. Her behaviour at Sir Pitt's house gains his favour, and after the premature death of his second wife, he proposes to her. However, he finds that she is already secretly married to his second son, Rawdon Crawley.Sir Pitt's elder half sister, the spinster Miss Crawley, is very rich, having inherited her mother's fortune of £70,000. How she will bequeath her great wealth is a source of constant conflict between the branches of the Crawley family who vie shamelessly for her affections; initially her favorite is Sir Pitt's younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley. For some time, Becky acts as Miss Crawley's companion, supplanting the loyal Miss Briggs in an attempt to establish herself in favor before breaking the news of her elopement with Miss Crawley's nephew. However, the misalliance so enrages Miss Crawley that she disinherits her nephew in favour of his pompous and pedantic elder brother, who also bears the name Pitt Crawley. The married couple constantly attempt to reconcile with Miss Crawley, and she relents a little. However, she will only see her nephew and refuses to change her will.While Becky Sharp is rising in the world, Amelia's father, John Sedley, is bankrupted. The Sedleys and Osbornes were once close allies, but the relationship between the two families disintegrates after the Sedleys are financially ruined, and the marriage of Amelia and George is forbidden. George ultimately decides to marry Amelia against his father's will, primarily due to the pressure of his friend Dobbin, and George is consequently disinherited. While these personal events take place, the Napoleonic Wars have been ramping up. George Osborne and William Dobbin are suddenly deployed to Brussels, but not before an encounterwith Becky and Captain Crawley at Brighton. The holiday is interrupted by orders to march to Brussels. Already, the newly wedded Osborne is growing tired of Amelia, and he becomes increasingly attracted to Becky who encourages his advances.At a ball in Brussels (based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo) George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him. He regrets this shortly afterwards and reconciles with Amelia, who has been deeply hurt by his attentions towards her former friend. The morning after, he is sent to Waterloo with Captain Crawley and Dobbin, leaving Amelia distraught. Becky, on the other hand, is virtually indifferent to her husband's departure. She tries to console Amelia, but Amelia responds angrily, disgusted by Becky's flirtatious behavior with George and her lack of concern about Captain Crawley. Becky resents this snub and a rift develops between the two women that lasts for years. Becky is not very concerned for the outcome of the war, either. Should Napoleon win, she plans to become the mistress of one his marshals, and meanwhile she makes a profit selling her carriage and horses at inflated prices to panicking Britons seeking to flee the city, where the Belgian population is openly pro-Napoleonic. Captain Crawley survives, but George dies in the battle. Amelia bears him a posthumous son, who is also named George. She returns to live ingenteel poverty with her parents. Meanwhile, since the death of George, Dobbin, who is young George's godfather, gradually begins to express his love for the widowed Amelia by small kindnesses toward her and her son. Most notable is the recovery of her old piano, which Dobbin picks up at an auction following the Sedleys' ruin. Amelia mistakenly assumes this was done by her late husband. She is too much in love with George's memory to return Dobbin's affections. Saddened, he goes to India for many years. Dobbin's infatuation with Amelia is a theme which unifies the novel and one which many have compared to Thackeray's unrequited love for a friend's wife。

Book report of Vanity FairVanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The reason that I made my decision to pick it from the library is my fancy on the movie Vanity Fair. It turned out that the novel is more interesting than the movie. The novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. The lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious, and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich city merchant. They two meet at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition, while the latter by her delicate heart. And it satirizes the society in early 19th-century Britain.The book gives me a entire view of the life which is pretty extravagant. It tells us that Becky is a beautiful, strong-willed and cunning young woman who is determined to make her way to the upper society. She makes every possible effort by hooking or by crooking to get rid of poverty. And she failed in the end. By contrast, Amelia Sedley is a good-natured, loveable though simple-minded young girl. She does not understand what life is. And she is portrayed by her husband and friend Becky. She is such a coward that she does not run counter to her fate and always accept the reality quite contently as it is. She is so pitiful and conventional. Yet God blesses her, she comes across a perfect man Dobbin and gets married to him at last.When I see the title of this novel "Vanity Fair", I was wondering what is the meaning of it. And after I finished reading, I found that a vanity fair is a hypocritical, commercial and money-grabbing aristocratic society. Although the book was written in the 19th century, it still can reflect the reality nowadays. In our society, some people are unable to see things clearly. They are confused because their minds are full of wealth, power, vanity and so on. And they become slaves of vanity eventually. Thackeray had drawn a lifelike scene of the reality in the novel, which is the reason why the novel has been popular for so many years. Since vanity fair is a trap that everyone is likely to step into, we had better be careful when we are pursuing something. Meanwhile, when I was reading the book, I could not help asking myself that what kind of person I am. The Becky or the Amelia? Fortunately, I am none of them. I think both Becky and Amelia are adorable. And I won’t be so conventional that tend to accept the reality as it is as Amelia because I have the intention to struggle for something better. I will bravely seek after the happiness like Becky, but never in her way because I think power and money is less important than friendship and some other staff. And a s far as I’m concerned, what we should pursue is anything valuable but the vanity.。

世界名著翻译佳作--Vanity Fair名利场BEFORE THE CURTAIN开幕以前的⼏句话As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place.领班的坐在戏台上幌⼦前⾯，对着底下闹哄哄的市场，瞧了半晌，⼼⾥不觉悲惨起来。

There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling;市场上的⼈有的在吃喝，有的在调情，有的得了新宠就丢了旧爱；有在笑的，也有在哭的，还有在抽烟的，打架的，跳舞的，拉提琴的，诓骗哄⼈的。

fiddling--[transitive] British English informalSCC to give false information about something, in order to avoid paying money or to get extra money:--[intransitive] to play a violinfiddle around phrasal verbto waste time doing unimportant thingsthere are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.有些是到处横⾏的强梁汉⼦；有些是对⼥⼈飞眼⼉的花花公⼦，也有扒⼉⼿和到处巡逻的警察，还有⾛江湖吃⼗⽅的，在⾃⼰摊⼦前⾯扯起嗓⼦嚷嚷（这些⼈偏和我同⾏，真该死！），跳舞的穿着浑⾝发亮的⾐服，可怜的翻⽄⽃⽼头⼉涂着两腮帮⼦胭脂，引得那些乡下佬睁着眼瞧，不提防后⾯就有三只⼿的家伙在掏他们的⼝袋。

VanityFair名利场英文简介读后感故事梗概第一篇：Vanity Fair 名利场英文简介读后感故事梗概Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is written by William Makepeace Thackeray.This novel tells the lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious, and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich city merchant.They two meet at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition, while the latter by her delicate heart.And it satirizes the society in early 19th-century Britain.The book gives me an entire view of the life which is pretty extravagant.It tells us that Becky is a beautiful, strong-willed and cunning young woman who is determined to make her way to the upper society.She makes every possible effort by hooking or by crooking to get rid of poverty.And she failed in the end.By contrast, Amelia Sedley is a good-natured, loveable though simple-minded young girl.She does not understand what life is.And she is portrayed by her husband and friend Becky.She is such a coward that she does not run counter to her fate and always accepts the reality quite contently as it is.She is so pitiful and conventional.Yet God blesses her, she comes across a perfect man Dobbin and gets married to him at last.After finished reading, I found that a vanity fair is a hypocritical, commercial and money-grabbing aristocratic society.Although the book was written in the 19th century, it still can reflect the reality nowadays.In our society, some people are unable to see things clearly.They are confused because their minds are full of wealth, power, vanity and so on.And they become slaves of vanity eventually.Since vanity fair is a trap that everyone is likely to step into, we had better be careful when weare pursuing something.第二篇：名利场读后感《名利场》读后感---现实与美好看来我还是喜欢那种令人满意的结局，虽然算不上皆大欢喜，不过也够令人为主人公欢呼喝彩的了，名利场读后感。

名利场英⽂介绍1,storyThe novel takes place during the Napoleonic Wars and tells the lives of two contrasted girls: Rebecca（Becky）Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious; and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich City merchant. These two girls meet at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition and the latter by her delicate heart. At the beginning,Becky live in a rich life and her social state is promoted step by step relying on some ignoble means.But Amelia suffer great sorrow because of her father's bankruptcy.However, several years later,their life are totally changed, they seem go back to their original life.Becky gain nothing, and Amelia return to happy life again.2,Main characterBeckyShe is Tricky, resourceful, practical, and tries to master her own fate.She is quick-witted ,shrewd, unscrupulous and sophisticatedShe is a perfect embodiment of the spirit of Vanity Fair as her only aspiration in life is to gain wealth and position by any means: lies, mean action and unscrupulous speculating with every sacred ideal.She is full-blooded and many-sided.AmeliaShe is simple, sentimental, weak, but good-naturedShe is gentle and virtuous,but too simple-hearted and naive to oppose the plots of selfish and calculating personages that surround her.Amelia is a ideality embodiment who has all kinds of women’s morality in the central society of man:she is tractable,gen tle,honesty,and she has a bleeding heart,respecting her h usband and being faithful to her husband,she never had her own desire and calculation,rich in self-sacrifice,a perfect lad y,a model wife and mother.3，Writing styleIts writing style is so sarcastic,humorous,active and elaborate. Thackeray uses satire,irony,metaphor and contrast to make th e novel more enchanting,impressing and enlightening.In Vanity Fair, the author makes the narration in the tone of an omniscient story-teller to recount what he knows well, and it is also quite natural to insert some comments into the narration.4，themeThackeray mainly described the lives of aristocrats and rich people.With scathing irony Thackeray exposes the vices of this society:hypocrisy,money worship,and moral degradation.5，inspiration。

Book report about the Vanity Fair09270411 英本一班Vanity Fair is the masterpiece of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), a very outstanding critical realist writer of England in the 19th century. William Shakespeace Thackeray was born in a rich family in Calcutta of India. His father, Richmond Thackeray (1781-1815), was a secretary to the board of revenue in the British Eastern Indian company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company .But his father was dead when Thackeray was only four years old and then his mother had a second marriage. His stepfather was also a rich man so that he had the chance to go back to Britain for a good education in 1929. He had studied in Charterhouse school① and Trinity College, Cambridge and also lived with the upper class of Britain. However, he left the university in 1930 for he was not that keen on the academic study. Then he had travel to Paris and later decided to return to England to study law in Middle Temple②. But he soon gave up before he got his inheritance, unfortunately, most of which were spent in gabling and running two unsuccessful newspapers, the National Standard and the Constitutional.③ Forced to consider a career to support him, he first turned to learning art in Paris but gave up again. Then he became a reporter for a British newspaper in Paris. Unfortunately, it was not so long before he returned to the motherland for the close of the press and then he had to earn his bread by writing. He had published many works and taken several pen names before the birth of his Vanity Fair. And it was after the publishing of this work that he eventually had become well-known and also been recognized as a very talented novelist. What’s more, he never stopped his creations and inserted some pictures in his books by on his own, one by one to support the family where there were a sick wife and two daughters. Besides, he had delivered his speech in both England and America. In 1857, he failed in his competition in the House of Commons in Oxford, and then in 1859, he took up a career of the chief editor of the magazine，Cornhill. However, he died with heart attack resulting from the long-tern hard work in 1863, right before the Charismas.In this novel, he told a story about the completely different life experiences of two young girls and also described a vivid picture of the life of the upper class in England in the 19th century, when most of the people had engaged to the pursuit of wealth and fame. They often played with intrigues, even inside the home and tended to ingratiate themselves i nto other’s favor in order to achieve the fame and wealth. However, in the Vanity Fair, whatever efforts they had made in the pursuit of wealth or fame, it turnedout that they got nothing at last. In the story, the heroine, Rebecca (Becky) Sharp was a very clever, cute and a capable girl who had grown up in a poor family, where her father was a not known painter and her mother was an actress in an opera. However, the other girl, Amelia was born in a rich family in the Russell square in London, where her father, Mr. Sedly was a successful businessman. But they were good friends despite the long distance between their statuses and both studied in Pinkerton school. After they finished their studying here, Becky began to make a living by herself. First she went to the Amelia’s and spent several days here where she had made all her mind to win the love of Amelia’s brother, Joseph Sedly to make a difference of her poor fate. But it turned out a failure for Joseph was accurately not good at pleasing girls. Later, B ecky went to the old Sir Pitt’s and worked as a governess. She again tried every means to please the whole family and even the old virgin Miss crawly who was always living a very dissipated private life. And without being noticed, she got married with the younger son of Sir Pitt, Rawdon Crawley, who was the darling of his aunt and also the dandy of note. But unfortunately the secret marriage and the elopement finally enraged Miss Crawley, so that the young heir had been deprived of his inheritance.In the period, the old Mr. Sedly had a great failure in the business affairs, which he had almost lost all his fortune as a result of the bankruptcy and a rapid decline of the whole family. Amelia had had an engagement with George Osborne in the consent of the both families when they were very young. George was very handsome man of great manners and also a dandy. However, he was an idol whom Amelia had a blind worship of and fascination with.After the bankruptcy of the Sedley, old Mr. Osborne who was an arrogant and overbearing man tried to break the engagement and even hit his old friend Mr. Sedly when he was down. While Amelia was such a fragile girl that she was so heartbroken and even became pining day after day, after knowing the news. On the other hand, Georg e’s good friend Dobbin who had a crush on Amelia since their first meet, made great efforts to persuade George against his father’s order to marry her.And as same with Becky and Rawdon, the marriage had annoyed old Osborne as a same result of the lost of the inheritance. Unfortunately, George, Rawdon and Dobbin had been ordered to march to the front, so the two new couples along the army had come to Brussels, the captain of Belgium. But in a grand ball before the battle of Waterloo, giving in the temptation of Becky, George had a tryst with her and even sent her a message for elopement, which however, then became a secret since George had lost his life in the battle.After the war, Becky wanted to get out of poverty and step into the upper class by seizing everychance to display her beauty and wisdom, and tried every means to make friends with those of upper class. What’s more, she even sacrificed herself to flatter Lord Tapeworm and got sums of money from him. But Rawdon got to know the truth and then broke up with Becky, who eventually reduced to becoming the scourings of the world.As for Amelia, she had a hard time to recover from the death of her husband. Even as ten years passed, she couldn’t forget him about his love and tenderness. She had to suppor t her child by herself since the old Osborne refused to accept her as a daughter in law, while Dobbin was always trying to help her, and he never stopped his love of her. Till the end, Amelia gave up her custody of the child so as to get the help of old Osborne to run the family. Then about ten years later, Dobbin came back from India and told Amelia about his unfixed love of her. But it was a long way before Amelia woke up from the lie of her husband and finally accepted the love of Dobbin. And old Osborne was also aware that the long pursuit of wealth and fame was so stupid and then gave almost all his fortune to his grandson. After finishing reading the book, I found my interest in the theme of the novel that all the greedy pursuits of the fame and wealth would turn out to be nothing especially having experienced a lot. It was also a great process and creation that he had made great breakthroughs in the work. One of most important is that he did not deliberately distort or change the characteristics of the roles in his works. The characters are not commonly kind or devil, but instead they always had their own thoughts. And I will have a brief analysis of the characteristics of Amelia.At the beginning of the story, Amelia was supposed to be a quiet kind and unselfish person, but later she had also showed the selfishness and shallowness of her characteristics especially in her ambigular attitudes to Dobbin. She was unwilling to marry Dobbin but wanted to keep him staying around her for she had already known his deep love of herself. She just tried to avoid referring to the abnormal relationship with him even after his confession. On the one hand, I felt so angry and painful when I was told that Amelia had no response to Dobbin’s love even after a decade. What’s worse, it was bitter for him to stay with her but not had the ability to let her love him. On the other hand, I could not help showing mercy on Amelia, who was so pitiful for she had been admiring her husband with all her heart but the fact was that her husband did not deserved to for he had never treasured her love and even had betrayed her on the seventh day since their wedding. What’s worse, she did not know the truth for a great deal of reasons. All she had kept in her mind was that she could not betray her husband or to accept the love from anyone else since her husband had tenderly loved her. And as far as I amconcerned, the Amelia becomes more a mortal than an angel for there is no such a perfect person neither in the novel nor the real world.What’s more, the author had not only aid his attention to the description of the characters or the analysis of the plots, but also the revealing and criticizing of the decayed social phenomenon and even the atmosphere of the society, especially the vivid descriptions of the extravagant scenes of those balls in those upper class. All in all, it is a great book to know the true life of those in that period. And also I have learned a lot of idioms and special expressions from the book.Remarks:①Charterhouse School: originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is English collegiate independent boarding school (also referred to as a public school) situated at Godalmimg in Surrey.②Middle Temple: The Honorable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. It is located in the wider Temple area of London, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within the City of London. Reference:Vanity Fair，W.M.Thackerary, 吴建国注释，上海：上海外语教育出版社，2001（英美文学名著导读详注本）IBSN 7-81080-105-8/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray/wiki/Charterhouse_School。