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The Brief Analysis of Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley VanityFair is the most famous and marvelous work of Thackeray’s, which satirizes the downfallen upper class and utilitarian bourgeois upstarts in Britain. In this long novel, Thackeray depicts a comely young woman, Rebecca Sharp, who is smart enough to take advantage of her beauty to climb upward in the Vanity Fair. To make a comparison with Rebecca Sharp, Thackeray also creates another pretty woman, Amelia Sedley, a friend of Sharp ’s, who lives a totally different life. As these two women, especially Rebecca Sharp, are the most important characters in the novel, and they have different attitudes toward wealth and fame, so in my article, I’d like to make a brief analysis of the characters of Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley. Rebecca Sharp is the daughter of a deceased drawer and a French dancer. He parentage is rather poor. It is exactly the poor parentage that makes Rebecca Sharp go through many difficulties in he early age, and makes he decide to join the luxurious upper class so desperately that she is willing to do whatever she can. I have to admit that Rebecca Sharp is really smart and beautiful. He beauty and keen mind is her capital in the venture of stepping into the upper class. Though she dose not have a prestigious pedigree, she still finds her own way of surviving and succeeding in the society where wealth and fame is highly adored. She makes it by proper utilization of her beauty, sharp observation of people ’s mind, accurate words to flatte the noble, as well as wonderful techniques of asking and rejecting a certain demand. In order to step into a comparatively good family, Rebecca Sharp has to make compromise. So when she has heard that Joseph Sedley is single, she makes up her mind to seduce him, even though she has neither known