In Vanity Fair Thackeray clearly demonstrated his view of women through the characterization of the two main female figures.In Thackeray' s opinion,Becky Sharp was a rebellious figure,the Victorian " adventur...In Vanity Fair Thackeray clearly demonstrated his view of women through the characterization of the two main female figures.In Thackeray' s opinion,Becky Sharp was a rebellious figure,the Victorian " adventuress",while Amelia was the traditional submissive Victorian woman," Angel in the House".Via the narrator' s comments,the author expressed his own view of women.On the one hand,he approved of Becky' s rebellion,self-consciousness,courage,self-reliance in times of adversity,and on the other hand disapproved of Amelia' s weakness,passiveness.As victims of the patriarchal society,both of the women were accorded with much sympathy.展开更多
William Makepeace Thackeray is a great critical realistic writer,whose works are very profound.And his masterpiece,Vanity Fair,has superb artistic accomplishment.Thackeray’s description and satirical criticism of the...William Makepeace Thackeray is a great critical realistic writer,whose works are very profound.And his masterpiece,Vanity Fair,has superb artistic accomplishment.Thackeray’s description and satirical criticism of the life of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy is sharp,penetrating and unique.His Vanity Fair fully embodies his viewpoint that a novel should reflect nature and reality,and transmit the real situation and true feelings.展开更多
By comparison between pioneering ladies in O Pioneers! and My Antonia and lost ladies in A Lost Lady and My Mor tal Enemy,this thesis aims at presenting the independent formers'wholesome loyalty to love and the re...By comparison between pioneering ladies in O Pioneers! and My Antonia and lost ladies in A Lost Lady and My Mor tal Enemy,this thesis aims at presenting the independent formers'wholesome loyalty to love and the reliant latters'marital be trayal.Nihilistic,cynic and despaired,the lost ladies had depraved from romantic love to self-destruction based on material hedo nism;diligent,enterprising and persistent,the pioneering ladies,from innocent girlhood to weather-beaten middle age,had real ized self-fulfillment both in spiritualization and prosperous homesteads.展开更多
文摘In Vanity Fair Thackeray clearly demonstrated his view of women through the characterization of the two main female figures.In Thackeray' s opinion,Becky Sharp was a rebellious figure,the Victorian " adventuress",while Amelia was the traditional submissive Victorian woman," Angel in the House".Via the narrator' s comments,the author expressed his own view of women.On the one hand,he approved of Becky' s rebellion,self-consciousness,courage,self-reliance in times of adversity,and on the other hand disapproved of Amelia' s weakness,passiveness.As victims of the patriarchal society,both of the women were accorded with much sympathy.
文摘William Makepeace Thackeray is a great critical realistic writer,whose works are very profound.And his masterpiece,Vanity Fair,has superb artistic accomplishment.Thackeray’s description and satirical criticism of the life of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy is sharp,penetrating and unique.His Vanity Fair fully embodies his viewpoint that a novel should reflect nature and reality,and transmit the real situation and true feelings.
文摘By comparison between pioneering ladies in O Pioneers! and My Antonia and lost ladies in A Lost Lady and My Mor tal Enemy,this thesis aims at presenting the independent formers'wholesome loyalty to love and the reliant latters'marital be trayal.Nihilistic,cynic and despaired,the lost ladies had depraved from romantic love to self-destruction based on material hedo nism;diligent,enterprising and persistent,the pioneering ladies,from innocent girlhood to weather-beaten middle age,had real ized self-fulfillment both in spiritualization and prosperous homesteads.
