Glare of Fashion in Vanity Fair Essay -- Vanity Fair Essays

Glare of Fashion in amour propre Fair      I fancy the doors to society guarded by grooms of the chamber with flaming silver forks with which they prong all those who have not the powerful of the entre...the honest newspaper fellow....dies after a little time. He displacet brave out the glare of fashion long. It scorches him up, as the presence of Jupiter in full rationalize wasted that poor imprudent Semele&emdasha giddy moth of a creature who ruined herself by venturing out of her natural atmosphere. (657) With this sentiment in mind, Thackeray expresses his conception of the danger present when one attempts to misuse right(prenominal) of their immanent social strata. Through depicting a world devoted to upholding the indomitable codes of society, Thackeray creates an appropriate backdrop for his humorously satirical novel Vanity Fair. At the heart of this work, the avaricious Becky Sharp, born of common blood, fights against traditional precincts by ve nturing (657) outside of her proper environs and entering into an elevated climate where the credulous outturn un pursuanceioningly to her will and the skeptics scorn her with cold indifference. Determined to secure a place in genteel society, Rebecca, disregarding the standards of society, manipulates the naive by harming in hypocrisy and subterfuge while blinding those who doubt her with an stubborn charm. Clearly a perfectionist in the art of deception, Becky Sharp, a young adult female with serpentine sentiments, slithers her way into the aristocratic society that composes the hollow cortex of Vanity Fair. With unremitting cupidity, Becky exploits all those she encounters for the sole purpose of ameliorating her own situation, both(prenominal) financially and socially. Commencing her mission... ...little earthenware pipkin, you want to swim down the stream along with the spectacular copper kettles...lookout and hold your own How the women will bully you (613) Substantiati ng headmaster Steynes foreboding, with frigid indifference the ladies at his soire slight Becky, thus proving that she can never fully advance into their milieu. In view of this, Becky, one step away from pushing open the doors to social dominance, fails. Charms and beauty only pass on the unwealthy so far in the world of Vanity Fair, thus Becky carcass locked out of the room to which she dedicated her life to gaining entrance. Outstripped by the pretentious peerage, Beckys quest for status reiterates the insuperable fact that one without fortune or majestic ancestry cant survive the glare of fashion long (637).   Thakeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. impertinently York Bantam Books, 1997.