W. W. Thackeray, one of the greatest English prose writers. “Vanity Fair” is one of the most famous novels of William Makepeace Thackeray. And I would like to tell you about it. “Vanity Fair” is his masterpiece. The novel is heavy with satire. Thackeray attacks the most common vices of the upper classes – money worship, reverence for ranks and titles, hypocrisy, cruelty and corruption. May be it can be very strange, but this novel is about blonde, in reality Becky Shard has red hair, but in her heart (in her soul) she is a real blonde. She is very beautiful, clever, prudent and sly. The novel transfers us in England, the 19th century.
As we see the title of this story is obscure, because in this title the author makes use of one of the most expressive tropes – a metaphor. “Vanity Fair” is an upper class, and this upper class values us. But from another hand we can say that title is clear, because we always try to sell ourselves at a high price in this “Vanity Fair”. So after these explanations we can say that this text will be about money and love. Of course at first we can think that this text will be about love and passion with happy end, without any intresting facts, but in reality it isn` t so.
 The theme of this story is relation between people in different kinds of society. The main idea of this story is Becky` s career (her aspiration for being rich and famous) and her family, most of all her son. Many of us (I mean parents) chose the career, but not family, we forgot about it. 
 The plot develops surround people` s feelings, their choice between career and family. The action takes place in England. We can find some facts of it in the text: “…in a great party in a spending saloon… that officer imparted it to Lord Steyne`s gentleman…”
This story is about career, love, family and friendship. The main characters of this story is Becky Sharp, the minor characters of this story are her son, her husband, Lord Steyne and servants. I think it will be difficult to define the protagonist and antagonist characters. We can` t say that Becky is a protagonist hero and so we can` t say that she is an antagonist hero. In my point of view the main protagonist of this film is Amelia Sedley and of course there is opposite characters. The main villain is Lord Steyne, because he destroyed all Becky` s life. But as we know the good people always win the evil.
So and now I would like to retell you this story in brief. 
William Makepeace Thackeray's witty assessment of the British class system, as seen through the experiences of one young woman, is brought to the screen with some serious star power in this period comedy drama. Becky Sharp is a bright and ambitious girl born to a poor British family. Becky is determined to make something of herself however she can, and after accepting a job as a nanny for the children of the powerful and aristocratic, but very miserly, Sir Pitt Crawley, she wastes no time ingratiating herself with the family. Pretty Becky catches the eye of Crawley's handsome and eligible son Rawdon, and becomes chummy with sharp-tongued Aunt Matilda. Between the two of them, Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia Sedley, a former school chum who is amused by Becky's efforts to scale the ladder of social influence. Becky weds Rawdon, but following initial happiness, the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles in gambling and drink, and soon she turns to the powerful Lord for support. Meanwhile, Amelia's fortunes fall even harder following the death of her husband. Of course the end of this drama story is happy end. The end of this story is the marriage of Becky Sharp and the insight of Amelia. We understood that in reality she loved William Dobbin, and she knew it when Becky opened Amelia’s eyes to Dobbin` s love. 
 We can find both of conflicts in this text. External conflict is a conflict between Becky and her family. Becky wants to get to the highest society. Internal conflict is a conflict of feelings and emotions of members of family. In reality Becky love her son, but she can`t understand that she love him. 
 The action is growing step by step. The climax of this chapter we can find in the end, when we see the kitchen and the housemaid, she looked a spider. She raised broom and swept away him. It`s a metaphor, the author compares Becky with this spider. Like this spider Becky couldn` t be happy.
 Of course we can find many stylistic devices in this text. The title of this story is Metaphor. The author tries to show us his attitude to upper class. In the end of this story we can find a metaphor I mean the spider. We can find a lot of examples of irony. The author uses it because he show us his attitude to upper class and his attitude to Becky.
 As for me I like it very much, because the end of this story is uncommon and it`s a big plus. I`d advise everybody to read this novel. 



Lysenko Victoria