6 jun 1848 año - 'Vanity Fair', W M Thackeray

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offers a panorama of society and compares the lives of 2 young women: Becky Sharp, a penniless orphan endowed with beauty and wit, yet ambitious and unscrupulous, and the gentle, pure Amelia and her selfless love for George Osborne. It is a 'novel without a hero' (the subtitle). T showing that, contrary to literary conventions, any insight into human nature proves that no one is a hero. The novel addresses the banities (the titles is from Bunyans's 'Pilgrim's Progress') of contemporary society: selfishness, hypocrisy, moral and ocial complacency, which are inderscored by the background of war with France.
A playful tone, delfation and lowering images are used to undermine the Victorians' belief in the sanctity of marriage, in the noble cause of war or in the frailty and innocence of women. The omniscient narrator remains detached, amused, ironical, constantly manipulating the readers and challenging their preconceptions, smugness and respactability

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