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The Role Of Women In Vanity Fair

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In Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray gave a picture of the middle and upper classes in the nineteenth century England. First, it was published serially in a magazine. Vanity Fair was a turning point in Thackeray’s life and career, and probably the best-known novel by him. According to Blodgett in ‘Necessary Presence: The Rhetoric of the Narrator in Vanity Fair’, Nineteenth Century Fiction, (1967), society in Thackeray’s eyes as a fair of vanity where greed, snob, and selfishness. Thackeray created in every character of Vanity Fair at least a bit of selfishness, hypocrisy or other immortality inside. Thackeray portrays characters with human imperfections a normal human being with good and evil, he did not produce perfect heroes. He makes Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley as the essential basis for his analysis of society in Vanity Fair. These two women are completely different. Rebecca is a poor orphan, strong character with a zest for living and a clever crafty woman, while Amelia is a girl of a good family and a rather naïve and rather sensitive woman. These women represent two different ways of being vain or they make the contrast between a selfishly good one and selfishly bad. (p. 211-223) Thackeray in Vanity Fair –A Novel without a Hero, creates Rebecca and Amelia were leaving school,

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