摘要
《名利场》是英国19世纪小说家萨克雷的成名作品,小说围绕着贝基·夏普和艾米莉亚·塞得利的生活命运展开,艾米莉亚生于商人家庭,外表柔弱,心地善良,最终获得幸福;而贝基出身贫寒,外表妖媚,心机重重,结果夫离子散。通过这两个女主人公的命运,萨克雷描绘了当时上流社会中形形色色的人物。这部小说的副标题为"一部没有英雄的小说",因为它把当时的整个资本主义社会当作批评与讽刺的对象。小说中所描述的名利场是一个浮华的世界,到处都充满尘埃,将人们的眼睛蒙蔽,同时也蒙蔽了人们的心灵。
Vanity Fair is a masterpiece of Thackeray ,a British novelist ,in the 19th century .The novel re-volves around the fates of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley .Amelia ,who was born in a merchant family ,looks weak ,good-natured and gains happiness ultimately ,While Becky ,who was born poor ,looks seductive but has calculating mind ,and finally loses her husband and her son .T hackeray describes a rich gallery of characters in the high society through the two heroines .The subtitle of this novel is a novel without a hero .Because it consid-ers the whole capitalist society as the object of criticism and satire .Vanity Fair is a flashy world ,full of dust ev-erywhere ,which blinds the people’s eyes ,and at the same time blinds their hearts .
出处
《内蒙古民族大学学报（社会科学版）》
2014年第1期80-82,共3页
Journal of Inner Mongolia Minzu University：Social Sciences
