Vanity Fair by William Makepeace

Vanity Fair takes after the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley in the midst of their loved ones amid and after the Napoleonic Wars. The two ladies are apparently companions, who are dependably contrary to each other: when Amelia falls into an emergency, Becky is moving in the most astounding circles of society. At the point when Amelia comes into luckiness, Becky’s fortunes plunge. All through the novel, Amelia longs for affection, while Becky battles her way up the social stepping stool.

Vanity Fair mirrors Thackeray’s enthusiasm for deconstructing his period’s traditions with respect to abstract gallantry. The characters are altogether imperfect to a more prominent or lesser degree; even the most thoughtful have shortcomings. The human shortcomings Thackeray represents are for the most part to do with avarice, inertness, and self importance, and the conspiring, duplicity and lip service which veil them. Vanity Fair is in some cases considered the “essential organizer” of the Victorian local novel.