浅析《名利场》中蓓基·夏普的形象特征

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题目：浅析《名利场》中蓓基·夏普的形象特征

（英文）： A Brief Analysis of Rebecca Sharp’s Characteristics

in Vanity Fair

系别：外语系

专业：英语

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日期：2013年5 月

A Brief Analysis of Rebecca Sharp’s Characteristic in

Vanity fair

ABSTRACT

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) is one of the representatives of the English critical realistic writers. Vanity Fair is regarded as his masterpiece.

Owing to its extraordinary literary merits, Vanity Fair is listed among the most notable nineteenth-century English novels. The novel is based on the popular British upper society in nineteenth century, and vividly describes a smart girl Rebecca who wanted to master her own fate and get out of poverty. In order to reach the upper society she was capable of everything. Through her efforts, she raised herself out of poverty into the upper class, but lost everything in the end.

On the basis of the author’s background, this thesis will analyze the characteristics of Rebecca embodied in the novel Vanity Fair.The thesis is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the background of the author—William Makepeace Thackeray and his masterpiece Vanity Fair. The second part introduces the importance of characteristics in a novel and the research status of characteristics embodied in the novel Vanity Fair. The third part analyzes Rebecca Sharp’s characteristics. On the basis of the analysis, the fourth part explores the cause of Rebecca Sharp’s characteristics. And the last part has a summary of this thesis.

Key Words: Thackeray; Vanity Fair; Rebecca Sharp; characteristics

浅析《名利场》中蓓基·夏普的形象特征

摘要

威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷（1811.1863）是英国批判现实主义的代表作家之一,小说《名利场》是他的代表作。作者非同凡响的文学才华使得及其代表作《名利场》成为英国19世纪的重要的小说之一。这部小说取材于热闹的英国19世纪中上层社会，生动的描写了一个机灵的姑娘蓓基一心要掌握自己的命运，摆脱困难，她为了进入上层社会不择手段，最后摆脱贫困跻身上层社会但是最终也失去了一切的故事。

参考作者所处的时代，本文分析了该著作女主人公从不同方面所展现出来的形象特征。本文共分为五个部分。第一部分介绍作者萨克雷的生平和代表作《名利场》的简述；第二部分介绍小说人物的形象特征对小说的重要性及目前形象特征的研究现状；第三部分介绍了形象特征在女主人公蓓基·夏普身上的体现；第四部分分析贝基身上形象特征的形成原因；最后一章是对本论文的总结。

关键词：萨克雷；《名利场》；蓓基；形象特征

Contents

I. Introduction (1)

II. The importance of characteristic in the novel (1)

2.1 The definition of characteristic (1)

2.2 The development of characteristic (2)

2.3 Research on characteristic in Rebecca Sharp (2)

III. Rebecca Sharp’s characteristic embodied in Vanity Fair (3)

3.1 Rebecca’s attitude towards friends (3)

3.2 Rebecca’s attitude towards social status (4)

3.3 Rebecca’ attitude towards life (6)

IV. Analysis of the reasons for Rebecca Sharp’s characteristic (7)

4.1 Social-environmental influence on the author (7)

4.2 Family background influence on Rebecca (8)

4.3 Social-environmental influence on Rebecca (9)

V. Conclusion (10)

Bibliography (12)

Acknowledgements (13)