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Vanity Fair;An analysis of Vanity Fair; Settings and Circumstance;Settings and Circumstance;Vanity Fair is a novel without a Hero, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. The books title comes from John Bunyans allegorical story The Pilgrims Progress, first published in 1678 and still widely read at the time of Thackerays novel. In the novel, Becky Sharp is a classic example of this money-grubbing instinct. Everyone wishes to gain something in Vanity Fair and acts almost in the same manner as Becky.;;Characters;Becky: an orphan trying so hard to climb up into the upper class. Becky is clever selfish, bohemian and poor. She had a great ambitions, and used all kinds of impudent ways to achieve her aim. She is faithless to everyone. ; ;Rawdon Crawley: Thackeray describes him as a “heavy dragoon with strong desires and small brains, who had never controlled a passion in his life”. George Osborne: a superficial young man, a son of a trader..;Characters;Characters; The Plots;The Plots;Theme;The Characteristics of Vanity Fair;The Characteristics of Vanity Fair;Omniscient Narrator;In Vanity Fair, the author makes the narration in the tone of a story-teller. The tone is friendly and casual because he acts as a character in the Vanity Fair to recount what he knows well, and it is also quite natural to insert some comments into the narration. Thackeray was such a good narrator that the narration was vivid, interesting and full of humor. The dialogues are vivid and match the characters’ identities well.;The Characteristics of Vanity Fair;Archetype(原型);Vanity Fair reveals the truth of the politics and society of the capitalist world, that is, the ugliness of the society. Thackeray felt that the society was full of those faithless, hopeless and merciless men who were either swindlers or fools with much popularity. Novelists should make people laugh by exposing and making fun of them. Therefore, the novel Vanity Fair aims to reveal all the evils without mercy.