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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Thackeray's Becky Sharp is possibly the most exciting character in Victorian literature--an anti-hero, a swindler, and a master manipulator with humanity. She's Mr. Ripley, a hipster grifter, a seductress, and a feminist rebel. Becky electrifies this send-up of the British aristocracy as everyone scrambles to keep up with the Huddleston Fuddlestons.
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A lovely light-hearted look at how vanity and ambition rule the lives of these characters. The author clearly has a sense of the self sacrifice of some women and the blind ambition of others
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Crazy in the ideal Victorian way. I have many feelings re Rebecca shape. The ending is so bleak. I loved it.
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
it is very obvious from the dragging length of the story that it was published in small parts and its writer was paid by pages. idk how i managed to finish this but at least the final 100 pages were interesting because the plot actually got somewhere
Vanity Fair has a large cast of characters, but focuses particularly on two women, beginning on the day they leave school together and following their lives over the course of around twenty years. The two women are as different from each other as it is possible to be. Amelia is sweet, loving, submissive and every inch the gentlewoman, while her friend Becky is selfish, conniving, coquettish, and (as a consequence) much more interesting.
A lot has been written about Becky Sharp, and she really is one of the most fascinating females in literature. With the morals of an alley cat, she manages to twist her way into the affections of almost everyone she meets, making the likes of Scarlett O’Hara look like amateurs. The men she ensnares are willing victims, and the ways in which she manages to live handsomely on no income are imaginative and very funny.
The men of the novel are, for the most part, feckless, weak-willed creatures, providing a comic foil to the antics of Becky. George Osborne, the unworthy object of Amelia’s love, is inconstant and fickle. Becky’s husband is perfectly malleable, and Amelia’s brother is little more than an object of ridicule. The only exception is dear Captain Dobbin, a solid, dependable and adorable man who loves Amelia devotedly from afar and finds a million little ways to make her life better.
But for me, the best thing about this book is its narration. Thackeray breaks the fourth wall and lets the reader in on all sorts of observations about his characters - filling the book with little asides and witticisms that really make it sparkle. The whole novel has a jollity and ebullience to it that I really loved, and there were parts that genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Vanity Fair lifted the veil on life in the early 19thcentury and made me feel a part of it in a way that few books have ever quite managed. It is a long book, perhaps overly so, but Thackeray fills his pages with the minutia of life in such a way that you quickly become immersed. I often found myself reflecting that, for all our technology and modern ways, people haven’t really changed very much in the last 200 years.
A lot has been written about Becky Sharp, and she really is one of the most fascinating females in literature. With the morals of an alley cat, she manages to twist her way into the affections of almost everyone she meets, making the likes of Scarlett O’Hara look like amateurs. The men she ensnares are willing victims, and the ways in which she manages to live handsomely on no income are imaginative and very funny.
The men of the novel are, for the most part, feckless, weak-willed creatures, providing a comic foil to the antics of Becky. George Osborne, the unworthy object of Amelia’s love, is inconstant and fickle. Becky’s husband is perfectly malleable, and Amelia’s brother is little more than an object of ridicule. The only exception is dear Captain Dobbin, a solid, dependable and adorable man who loves Amelia devotedly from afar and finds a million little ways to make her life better.
But for me, the best thing about this book is its narration. Thackeray breaks the fourth wall and lets the reader in on all sorts of observations about his characters - filling the book with little asides and witticisms that really make it sparkle. The whole novel has a jollity and ebullience to it that I really loved, and there were parts that genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Vanity Fair lifted the veil on life in the early 19thcentury and made me feel a part of it in a way that few books have ever quite managed. It is a long book, perhaps overly so, but Thackeray fills his pages with the minutia of life in such a way that you quickly become immersed. I often found myself reflecting that, for all our technology and modern ways, people haven’t really changed very much in the last 200 years.