William Makepeace Thackeray studied in a satirical and moralistic light upper- and middle-class English life - he was once seen as the equal of his contemporary Dickens, or even as his superior. English journalist, novelist, famous for his novel VANITY FAIR (1848), a tale of two middle-class London families. Most of Thackeray's major novels were published as monthly serials. In the 1840s Thackeray started to gain name as a writer.

In Vanity Fair he gave a panoramic picture of high life in England, and created one of the most fascinating immoral female characters, Becky Sharp. "I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year." (from Vanity Fair) The book brought him prosperity and made him established writer and popular lecturer in Europe and in the United States.

The etymological studying of the word snob it show's us that it comes from abbreviation of ''it self-nobility'' words (without nobility). Strictly etymological, a snob is, a man without nobility, without emblem. In England, after the middle-class revolution, the word acquired much complex overtones, and the snobbery became a large proportions phenomenon representing the mentality of an entire

The snob type, of the man without nobility and fighting hard to conquest if not the title, at least its equivalence, equivalence stated in influence, manners, language, was extremely characteristic for England, after the middle-class revolution, where a rich middle-class, managing the destinies of a country, feels the fascinating attraction of a drawn blazonry.

The vehemence of the book must be associated with the climate of 1848, which in England like on the continent meant a moment of affirmation of the social democrat forces.

Vanity Fair- is the vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society centres on Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, good-natured but 'silly'. They are two boarding-school friends, whose destinies are contrasted. Clever and ambitious Becky is born into poverty as the daughter of a penniless artist. Her plans to marry Amelia's brother Joseph fail. She marries Rowdon Crawley, but he is disinherited. Becky manages to live at the height of fashion through the patronage of Lord Steyne. When her husband discovers the truth, he departs to become the governor of Coventry Island. Becky is ostracized and she moves to the Continent. In the meantime Amelia's stockbroker father is ruined. Amelia is loved by William Dobbin but she marries George Osborne - he dies in the battle of Waterloo. Amelia's son is left into the care of his grandfather, who dies and leaves him a fortune. Amelia travels in the Continent with his brother and they meet Becky. Dobbin has returned from India and disapproves Amelia's kindness to Becky. Older and disillusioned, Dobbin and Amelia can marry. Becky regains her hold over Joseph, who dies in suspicious circumstances. Becky's husband Rowdon dies, and Becky ends the novel in the guise of a pious widow.

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