ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Thackeray calls Vanity Fair, “a novel without a hero”. His aim is to depict life realistically, and as real life is not heroic1, his novel is void of conventional heroes. Therefore, none of the characters escape his cynicism, but all have their allotted share of vanities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vanity Fair is one of the earliest domestic novels, remains a classic today, and Becky Sharp, the ultimate social climber, inspires as much debate now as then.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vanity Fair is the story of one young woman’s rise to the top of England’s shallow upper-class society and her swift fall. Vanity Fair also focuses on the people who populate that world, including Becky’s friend, Amelia Sedley, who in many ways lives out a parallel life to Becky’s.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vanity Fair is a 2018 historical drama miniseries based on the 1848 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray.