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1、由名利场的女主角夏泼蓓基的人生分析人性Analysis of the Human Nature from Becky Sharps Life after Reading Vanity FairContents Abstract.1 Key Words.1.Introduction .1 . Thackeray and Vanity Fair .2 2.1 The Author.2 2.1.1 Thackerays Life Experience2 2.1.2 Thackerays Opinions on Human Nature.32.2 The Main Contents of the No
2、vel.4. What is Human Nature?.53.1 The Deep Course of Human Nature.53.2 The Dark Aspects Exist Extensively.6. Analysis of Becky Sharps Life Experience .64.1. Analysis of Beckys Success and Failure .64.2 Contrasting with Amelia Sedley .10. Recognizing the Human Nature, Living a Happy Life .12VI.Conclu
3、sion.13 References .14Analysis of the Human Nature from Becky SharpsLife after Reading Vanity Fair摘 要： 名利场是19世纪英国著名批判现实主义小说家萨克雷的代表作。“描写真实”和“宣言仁义”是它的两大主题。此篇论文主要从女主角夏泼蓓基的奋斗经历来分析人性，并举例分析当今社会人们的世界观和价值观,以及造成这种认识和观点的深层原因,即人性中的美好与阴暗。最后得出结论：我们应该认清人性的本质并以正确的方式去追求有价值的东西，只有这样，我们的生活才能幸福而有意义。关键词：名利场；人性；阴暗面；光明面 A
4、bstract: Vanity Fair is the masterpiece of William Makepeace Thackeray, one of the most important novelists of critical realism in the 19th century British Literature. “Description of what is true” and “advocation of what is benevolence” are the two basic tasks of it. This paper mainly makes a comme
5、nt on Becky Sharps life and at the same time, analysis of the human nature. The paper also gives examples about the outlook and opinions on value of the modern people. Then analyses the deep cause of it, that is, the bright and dark aspects of the human nature. This comes to the conclusion that we s
6、hould recognize the human nature and go after the valuable things in a proper way, thus we can live happily and meaningfully. Key words: Vanity Fair, Human nature, Dark aspects, Bright aspects.IntroductionHuman nature is complicated, abstract, and difficult to describe. As the human beings came into
7、 being, the bright and dark aspects of it have taken on everywhere and have influenced the relationship between each other. From the ancient time to the modern time, from the foreign countries to our motherland, there are many scholars, philosophers, etc, have done researches on human nature. Natura
8、lly, there are many works on it. For example, the well-known philosopher of our ancient China, MengZi, had a famous saying; “Human beings were kind when they were born.” In England there was a critical realist, William Makepeace Thackeray, who was born in 1811, and passed away in 1863, writing an ou
9、tstanding novel named Vanity Fair. In this novel, the author successfully created a female character Becky Sharp. Through describing her process of climbing into upper society and contrasting with another female figure Amelia Sedley, Thackeray pieces the hypocrisies of Vanity Fair, reveals the disgu
10、sting, brutal, degrading sordidness behind and below its elegance and glitter. Becky Sharp is a perfect embodiment of the spirit of Vanity Fair as her only aspiration in life is to gain wealth and position by any means: through lies, mean actions and unscrupulous speculation. Just as A Course Book o
11、f English Literature (Volume) reviews this novel, “Though the world he (Thackeray) depicts is predominantly that of the upper-middle class in the early 19th century-with its whirling ballrooms, noisy parties, heavily curtained bedrooms, elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen at card-tables and billi
12、ard rooms, flirting or gambling, where money is made or lost, marriages are contracted , the ambitions are thwarted and the stupid favored-his social-climbers and snobs and money-grabbers can be found in any class.” Thackerays criticism embraces people of all social strata. And in Vanity Fair, there
13、 are no completely positive characters. As a satirist his description is true. On the other hand, the author does not forget to advocate benevolence. This novel and its noted character Becky Sharp prove rather effective in indicating the human nature, especially the dark sides of it successfully and clearly.Thackeray and Vanity Fair2.1 The author2.1.1 Thackerays life experience
