Author(s)

Zhu Zhuo ¹, Zhu Xiaodong ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou 341000, Jiangxi, China

Corresponding Author

Zhu Xiaodong

ABSTRACT

Based on the detailed reading of Vanity Fair, this paper will delve into the fate of women in the Victorian era. William Makepeace Thackeray is one of the British prominent writers of critical realism. Vanity Fair, his masterpiece, has been acclaimed as a world classic. It describes two completely different women, called Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley, which is helpful to depict the Victorian British society more vividly. Through detailed description, the author finds that Vanity Fair satirizes the reality of worshiping money and strong class concept as well as male superiority and female inferiority, and also criticizes the backwardness and decay of Victorian marriage values, family values and money values. Based on this, this paper deeply analyzes the status and rights of women in the Victorian era.

KEYWORDS

Thackeray, Vanity fair, The fate of women, Victorian era

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhu Zhuo, Zhu Xiaodong. An Analysis of the Fate of Women in Victorian Era from Vanity Fair. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2021) 3: 28-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2021.030206.

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