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<<名利场>>是十九世纪英国批判现实主义作家萨克雷的代表作。< < vanity fair > > is the representative work of the 19th century British critical realism by writed thackeray.主题是批判资产阶级金钱关系，揭露资产阶级庸俗势利的市侩主义，指出整个英国社会就是一个出卖名利虚荣的市场，正直善良一无用处，金钱是唯一主宰。Theme is the criticism of the bourgeois money relationship, revealing the bourgeois vulgar snobbish bourgeois socialism, pointed out the whole British society is a betray and vanity markets, honest good is useless, money is the only master.作者对资产阶级普遍的道德沦丧是痛心疾首的，然而这种批判却带有浓厚的悲观主义色彩。\The author thinks the bourgeoisie universal moral decay is saddened, but this criticism is a deep pessimism \作品的主要人物有两个，蓓基.夏泼和爱米丽亚。

\The main character of the work has two, becky. Which and

Emily. 倍基夏泼，在我看来，是一个有心计，渴望进入上流社会的势利女人。她本是一个穷画师的女儿，从小就深受学校和社会的岐视，屈辱的社会地位和世态炎凉扭曲了她的灵魂，爬进资产阶级上流社会的欲望使她变得自私冷酷。这样在仰慕虚荣和追逐金钱的社会风气影响下，她迅速堕落成一个野心家和阴谋家，她决心靠美貌和阴谋，挤进上流社会，猎取财富和权势。Times which, in my opinion, is a shrewd, eager to enter upper-class snobbish woman. She is the daughter of a poor painter, from an early age by the school and the

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《名利场》的故事以两条线索展开，从同一个起点出发，相互交织，最后到达同一个终点。

其中一条线索讲述善良、笨拙、生活在富有家庭中的女子阿米莉亚·塞德利；另一条线索讲述的是一个机灵、自私、放荡不羁恢穷的孤女丽贝卡·夏普。

两人于1813年乘坐同一辆马车离开平克顿女子学校。两人都在遭到家庭反对的情况下，于1815年结婚，分别嫁给即将参加滑铁卢战役的两名英国军官。

新婚不久，那场具有历史意义的战役打响了。阿米莉亚的丈夫战死疆场；丽贝卡的丈夫战后生还。接下来的十年中，而贝卡生活一帆风顺，在社会的阶梯上不断攀升，直至有幸觐见国王，而阿米莉亚却因父亲破产承受着极大的不幸。

到了1827年，命运发生了逆转，丽贝卡的生活落入毁灭的深渊，这其实是罪有应得；阿米莉亚却转而变得富裕幸福，可归因于善有善报。但是，作者以灵活的讽刺手法，使两位女主角最后的命运归于平衡，仿佛在一个大的轮回之后，回到故事开始时两人命运的起点。

故事中，滑铁卢战役是两人命运的重要分水岭。战役之前，故事的焦点是两位女主角的婚事。两人的婚事分别受到男方家庭的反对，也都因此得不到家庭的支持，两位丈夫的遗产继承权均被取消。

滑铁卢战役之后，故事的焦点是两个女主角的贞节问题。两个三角关系分别展开。丽贝卡对丈夫不忠，与放荡好色的贵族富豪斯泰思侯爵勾搭；阿米莉亚对自己去世的丈夫信守贞节，拒绝与十几年如一日忠实爱慕她的多宾结婚。

主要人物关系：

贝姬·夏普（穷姑娘）和艾米利亚·塞德利（富家女）是同窗兼好友

贝姬·夏普与罗顿·考利（考利家族最有可能的继承人结了婚）是夫妻

艾米利亚·塞德利与迷人的军官乔治 是夫妻

乔治参战后死去 艾米丽亚后来嫁给了一直暗恋她的另一位军官

贝姬与斯丹恩勋爵私通 也因此和被丈夫抛弃 但最后和爱米的哥哥在一起了

两人的婚姻都是不受家里人祝福的

主要人物 情节：

主要情节可分两条线索。一条线索描写已故穷画师的女儿贝姬在离开平克顿女子寄宿学校后，暂住在富家小姐爱米丽亚家中，企图勾引爱米丽亚的哥哥以进入上流社会。此事失败后，贝姬去毕脱·克劳雷爵士家当家庭教师，同时施展逢迎、拍马和勾搭等乖巧手段。而当毕脱丧偶后向蓓基求婚时，她却已秘密嫁给了爵士的儿子罗登。

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Vanity Fair

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine said,” No writer was better gifted than Thackeray for this kind of satire because no faculty is more proper to satire than reflection.” From this comment we can clearly see that William Makepeace Thackeray, the writer of Vanity Fair, has a very high evaluation in literary circles. It’s the reason why I choose to read this book. By the way, I have to say Vanity Fair is so good a title that we can see through the hypocrisy of this human society.

Vanity Fair is talking about that the daughter of poor painter, Rebecca Sharp, have been lost parents, but brilliant. After graduating from boarding school in the form of work-study program, Rebecca started by an unknown family teacher, firmly seize every opportunity to blend in the Victorian society. And she becomes a courtesan at last.

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名利场读后感（一）

终于把萨克雷的《名利场》看完了，超满足的！虽然这本书在刚开始看的时候觉得很乱，但是慢慢看下去就会发现这本书的迷人之处。

我觉得这本书有两个女主角——爱米利亚和利蓓加，这两个完全不同性格的人儿竟有着惊人相似的经历，都尝尽了人生的酸甜苦辣。爱米利亚性格懦弱温和，体贴，对自己的丈夫始终如一，虽然后来再婚也不能否定她对丈夫的忠诚。她小时候也算是一个富家小姐，到她从学校毕业后家里发生好多不如意的事后才逐步走向贫穷，幸而后来有哥哥乔斯和朋友都宾的帮忙，摆脱了贫穷，过上了体面的生活。而利蓓加的经历的时间却和爱米利亚相反，她是一个低贱的人（因为家庭背景的原因），小时候饱受鄙视，同样从学校毕业出来后，得到爱米利亚的帮助，离开她后，利蓓加在做了毕脱。克劳莱爵士家里的家庭教师，也不安分，因为她发誓要走进上流社会，并成为那里的一份子，她的野心太大了！但她确实做到了，嫁给了罗登。克劳莱后，她手上的钱从来不需要担心，因为她丈夫的名气，她可以随便赊账；并且，她的机智灵敏和惊人美貌让她在上流社会中如鱼得水，可以说，她也有一段时间是大放光彩的！可是她的出格行为使她的丈夫生气，谁想到就是这一次的生气使她遭到了人生中严重的落差，虽说后来她也得到了相当的钱财，因为后来在她重遇乔斯。赛特笠，她用她从前的伎俩骗取他的同情，最后竟得到了他的一部分财产，但不知她是否真的快乐！

在这本书里，我最“佩服”的是利蓓加，她的说谎伎俩是如此高深啊，逗得所有人为她办事，弄得罗登。克劳莱为她如此卖命，为她付出一切，但是她却好像从来没有把他看作是自己的丈夫，而是看作一个可怜的仆人，甚至对自己的儿子，她也从不关心，最让我印象深刻的是小罗登在伯伯家做客时，利蓓加为了显示自己对儿子所谓的爱，吻了小罗登一下，后来小罗登说“妈妈从来没吻过我”哈哈，这是第一次啊！这让利蓓加多尴尬。最终她和罗登闹翻了，我不知道她有没有伤心，我觉得痛苦应该是有的，但不知是为了和丈夫闹翻而痛苦，还是为了以后没钱用而痛苦就不知道了！

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My impression on Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair is the nineteen-century British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work and also one of the most famous British satirical novels of critical realism. In the story, Amelia Sedley, from a good family, and Rebecca Sharp, an orphan, leave Miss Pinkerton's academy on Chiswick Mall to live out their lives in Vanity Fair — the world of social climbing and search for wealth. Amelia does not esteem the values of Vanity Fair; Rebecca cares for nothing else. Rebecca becomes snobbish and complicated in order to climb out of poverty.She toys and flirts with any prospective ladder through which she could ascend to the upper class. But she also loses a lot, like her beloved husband ,during her pursuit of wealth and status. Finally,Rebecca and Amelia live a simple life away from the vanity fair.

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Vanity Fair:

A Novel without a Hero is written by William Makepeace Thackeray. This novel tells the lives of two starkly contrasted girls: Becky Sharp, orphaned and poor but ingenious, and Amelia Sedley, sheltered daughter of a rich city merchant. They two meet at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies, the former driven by social ambition, while the latter by her delicate heart. And it satirizes the society in early 19th-century Britain. The book gives me an entire view of the life which is pretty extravagant. It tells us that Becky is a beautiful, strong-willed and cunning young woman who is determined to make her way to the upper society. She makes every possible effort by hooking or by crooking to get rid of poverty. And she failed in the end. By contrast, Amelia Sedley is a good-natured, loveable though simple-minded young girl. She does not understand what life is. And she is portrayed by her husband and friend Becky. She is such a coward that she does not run counter to her fate and always accepts the reality quite contently as it is. She is so pitiful and conventional. Yet God blesses her, she comes across a perfect man Dobbin and gets married to him at last.

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Reflection of Vanity Fair

When I first read the book, immediately it reminds me of the entertainment business in today's society. Actually, there is once a star said: "the entertainment business is a bowl of water, more people jump into pure will become dirty, dark."

Vanity Fair mainly talks two heroines---one of them is humble, the other one is a scheming social climber--- who meets in boarding school and embarks on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and status---and the need for humility. In this novel, I like the name of novel “Vanity Fair” and the subtitle “A Novel without a Hero”.

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