1. Peggy Sharp
Liberica Sharp, or Peggy Sharp, is Roden's wife. Her father is a scribbling drawing teacher, her mother is a burlesque dancer, and her brother Joss (Joseph).
Peggy Sharp was a cunning, treacherous, wickedly selfish, hypocritical and debauched woman who was morally corrupt and scheming, and who typified the snobbishness of English society at the time. She was smart, witty, beautiful and generous, and she recklessly utilized these two advantages of her own in order to seek a stable position in the upper class. Becky Sharp, the daughter of an alcoholic picture teacher and a poor dancer, aims to gain wealth and a noble social position.
2. Amelia Saterasa
Amelia is beautiful and well-behaved, lives a rich life, is content with her lot in life, and longs for love. Playboy George Osborne is her emotional support, "he was her Europe, her emperor, against all the monarchs in the coalition and the country's powerful regent. George was her sun, her moon." "As soon as Georges arrived at the Place de la Suisse, it was as if the sun shone upon her, and her face lit up. She flew in and crouched on Lieutenant George Osborne's chest as if this place were her home.
3. Dubin
Dubin has a sense of justice, compassion, and genuine and deep feelings. He saw Amelia as a perfect angel, mistakenly thought that Amelia and George married to make her happy, so pressure on George and maneuvered in many ways, so that they avoided the old Osborne in the church hastily held a wedding, although the Dubin himself has always been silently in love with Amelia. Dubin naively thought that all men in the world would be happy and proud to have a wife like Amelia, and would be able to derive happiness from such a marriage.
Even when he knew that George Osborne had wanted to run away with Rebecca and abandon Amelia, he did not tell Amelia the secret, not even when he and Amelia clashed over Rebecca. After the death of George Osborne, Dubin even more selfless protection and care of Amelia mother and child.
4, George - Osborne
George Osborne was a handsome young man, but his behavior was extremely inconsistent with his appearance. He was corrupt and his mind was filled with thoughts of bourgeois hedonism. George uses every trick in the book to get money from his father, whom he ostensibly respects because Osborne Sr. controls his financial lifeblood and has the power to determine his inheritance.
Emilia's father, Mr. Saterasa, is affectionate to him, but when Saterasa Sr. goes bankrupt, George doesn't care. It was only when he thought of the family's fragmentation, out of nostalgia for the happy days of old and out of cheap sympathy, that he looked slightly sad. It was the same with his marriage to Amelia, partly out of condescending pity and charity, and partly because of the urgings of his good friend Dubin.
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Background
Social Background
The title of the Vanity Fair novel is taken from The Pilgrim's Progress, a satirical allegory by the 17th-century English writer John Buny an (1628-1688). Pilgrim 'sProgress, 1678).
The story of Vanity Fair is based on the upper classes of early 19th-century England, which was in the Vittoria era, when women were bound by traditional morals.
The United Kingdom was in the midst of a booming capitalist economy, and commerce and industry were the backbone of the country's economy. Various well-known rich and powerful businessmen ruthlessly exploited and squeezed the laborers who were at the bottom of the hierarchy and dominated the society at that time.
The contrast between the poor people at the bottom of the society and the rich capitalists at the top of the society, on the one hand, there are the poor people who can't eat and are y exploited, and on the other hand, there are the upper class people who continue to squander mountains of assets and lose themselves in the pursuit of fame and fortune.
The society at that time was in a state of "the world is bustling, all for the sake of profit, the world is bustling, all for the sake of profit". All kinds of money worship, the pursuit of fame, power and wealth were mixed together and constituted the state of life of people in the whole society.
After the 1830s and 1840s, there was a proliferation of middle-class views of women and the family, which claimed that there was a clear division of gender roles between men and women, i.e., men belonged to the public world of business and politics outside, and women belonged to the private world of the family. Women were the dependent ones who ran the household, the sweet "angels of the family". And the middle class is what Thackeray is familiar with and focuses on.
Personal Background
Thackeray was born in 1811 to an East India Company tax collector. Thackeray's father died when he was four years old, his mother remarried, and he was sent back to England at the age of six to study. The lack of maternal love made Thackeray pray for it. In the creation of his work, he wrote mother's love into the text.
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