文档介绍：Reading Response to Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray, the author of Vanity Fair,was a representative of critical realism in the 19th century. Vanity Fair enjoys a vital position in the English literature lots of truth in detail, Thackeray drew a picture of the society in the first half of 19th subtitle of this novel is "A Novel Without a Hero".It is lack of a hero, but full of mental and chatacter description. It is said that this is not only a novel , this is a society in miniature. It is not just in the united kingdom at that time, it is also in today.
In average novels, there are always heroes. But Vanity Fair boasts neither heroes nor decent figures. Conversely, all the characters have obvious Thackery's pen, Dobbin is stupid while Amelia selfish. The perfect person or near-perfect person don't belong to this spite of Dobbin,every character is who are mild, kind and clever end up sadly while the selfish,dull and malicious guys live a smooth life. From this point of view, we may ask: what is the value of ess? Moreover,since ess is momentary, the ess of the nonenity can never leave a trace in the history.
In the stage of Vanity Fair,honest citizens like Dobbin and Amilia suffer from adversity;the shrewd and sophisticated Becky Sharp gets buckets of money unscrupulously, aiming to pretend to be a person of up-c