Images of Becky Sharp and Emilia Sedley and their role in the novel by W. Thackeray "Vanity Fair". Contents

Images of Becky Sharp and Emilia Sedley and their role in the novel by W. Thackeray "Vanity Fair".

Contents

I.Introduction……………………………………………………………..

II MAIN PART…………………………………………………………….

1. Thackeray Vanity Fair. Images of Emily Sedley and Rebecca Sharp, the artistic identity of the novel.……………………………………..

2 Thackeray's Novel Vanity Fair.………………………………….

3 Typology Of Female Images In The Works Of W. Tekkera…………

III.Conclusions ………….…………………………………….…………..

Introduction

In this course work we will consider the work of the great writer W. Thackeray, in particular his novel "Vanity Fair".

When you turn to English literature of the last century, to its main and leading genre - to the genre of the novel, two figures standing next to each other involuntarily appear in memory - Dickens and Thackeray. Thackeray is only seven months older than Dickens. He was born on July 18, 1811, and Dickens on February 7, 1812. Thackeray began writing and publishing at the same time as Dickens, but he declared himself as a writer later than Dickens, not at the beginning, but at the end of the 30s. And it seems that a small gap was enough so that, in accordance with the individual inclinations and characteristics of the life of these writers, it would be reflected in the creative appearance of each of them. Lagging behind Dickens in the pace of his work, Thackeray grasped the conflicts of the same era in their more defined stage, saw them more and more sharply.

That which, under Dickens's pen, was usually tinged in tones of sensitive humor, cheerful, sad or gloomy, was portrayed by Thackeray in a harsh satirical grotesque.In Dickens's "Sketches of Bose" (mid-30s), the first experience of the writer, there were, for example, faces shackled by a grimace of dull class arrogance. In Thackeray's book of essays dating back to 1846-1847, The Book of Snobs, with which his fame began, the same figures acquired a frightening sharpness of expression and appeared before the reader branded with the word "snob", sonorous and harsh, like a sharp click on the forehead. accurate as a term, and emotionally rich as an image. Creeping before those who are higher than him in state or position, the snob looks with disdain at those who are below him. This is the spiritual essence of Thackeray's snob. Before Thackeray's pen touched this non-literary language, it had a limited meaning in the university and school environment: "shoemaker" - in the sense of a bad master, "ignorant", "city dweller". At Cambridge University, where Thackeray entered in 1824 and from where he left two years later without receiving a diploma, a handwritten weekly called Snob was published, and Thackeray took part in it. In his essays, which received reader's recognition, this word lost its semantic isolation and acquired a broad and acutely critical social meaning. Snobbery - the moral and psychological appearance and behavior of a snob - means arrogance, arrogance, pretense of sophistication, conceit, hidden or presumptuous, servility and despotism, in short, expresses the characteristic vices of a barely advanced or successful mediocrity.

The "Book of Snobs" gives a satirical description of snobs of different classes, social ranks and professional affiliation, presents "royal snobs" and "snobs from the City", metropolitan and provincial snobs, civil and military, university and literary, who are at different levels of the social ladder. The figures of the snobs, which is essential, are presented against a public background, and one can see how they are connected with this background. Thackeray exposed the essence, variants and shades of snobbery in the English bourgeois-aristocratic society, in all its layers and spheres, and denounced it as a national social disaster. The Book of Snobs is unevenly written; the characters and situations outlined in it often contain hints that at one time gave it a sharpness of topicality, and now require special explanations. But this book was an important stage in the writer's career to the novel "Vanity Fair", his most significant and famous work. This novel made Thackeray world-famous and placed him alongside Dickens."Vanity Fair" - "a novel without a hero" - this is how Thackeray titled his book in the subtitle. In these three words, he polemically expressed his intention, and his ideological position, and an innovative creative task, and the bitter result of his observations of contemporary society.The purpose of this research is to analyze the work of W. Thackeray "Vanity Fair" in the light of the dialogue of cultures, Russian-English literary ties in the 40-60s.