从《名利场》探析女性的虚荣观.doc

本科毕业论文（设计） 题 目 从《名利场》探析女性的虚荣观 院 系 外国语学院 专 业 英语 申请学位 文学学士学位 2011年 4 月 1 日  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My special gratitude goes to Master Wang Zhiming for her consent to be my supervisor, which is a great encouragement to me, for her insightful advice and above all careful scruting of both the outline and the draft in materializing the present thesis. Furthermore, Professor Wang’s scrupulous attitude in doing research and teaching and his kindness to students impress me deeply, which will benefit me for my whole life. I also wish to express my gratitude to teacher Zhou Lili, and teacher Li Xiaomin an, whose lectures enhanced my interest in British and American literature as well as widened my academic view. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to my family members who support me all the time with their love. I am also indebted to my dear colleagues, who have carried on subsequent discussions with me and sparked me to my thesis. Only with the help of so many people can this thesis been made possibly. Surely the remaining faults in this thesis are entirely mine. The Analysis of Female Vanity from Thackeray’s Vanity Fair Abstract: William Makepeace Thackeray is one of the representatives of the English critical realist writers. And Vanity Fair has been generally regarded as his masterpiece. It describes the two contrasting fates but inter-linked women characters—Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. By humorous and satire narrative techniques he states the story; through happy and lively dialogues he portrays the characters; using realistic manners he explores the England upper’s all sorts of ugly performance at that time, which makes the work have unique artistic charm, so as to establish Thackeray's important status in English literature history. The novel accompanies the lives of Becky and Amelia throu