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A 3 page essay that discusses how George Eliot in Middlemarch and William M. Thackeray in Vanity Fair craft vivid female characters, who are largely responsible for conveying the themes of the authors in both novels. Becky Sharp and Rosamond Vincy seem cast from the same mold and in both works they convey the disdain of each author for values based on materialism. Likewise, Celia Brooke and Amelia Sedley offer contrasts that underscore the points being made by the authors. No additional sources cited.
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Becky Sharp and Rosamond Vincy seem cast from the same mold and in both works they convey the disdain of each author for values based on materialism. Likewise, Celia Brooke
and Amelia Sedley offer contrasts that underscore the points being made by the authors. Becky is a principal protagonist in Thackerays novel. An orphan, Beckys main goals in life
are to obtain both wealth and social status, which Thackeray alludes to metaphorically as "Vanity Fair." Thackeray tells his readers early on that "Vanity Fair" is a "very vain, wicked,
foolish place" where money and wealth reign supreme (Thackeray). Becky becomes friends with Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkertons academy. totally self-centered woman who longs for respectability and a rise in
her social station. Becky has the intelligence and determination to achieve her goal of having all of the comforts of life. However, her selfishness is ultimately her undoing and leaves
her lonely and unloved. She is cruel to her husband, Rawdon Crawley, and betrays him with other men and it is implied by Thackeray that she had a role in
the death of Jos Sedley. Thackeray ends Beckys story by implying broadly that she murdered Jos and by describing her in the most malevolent of terms when he compares her
to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "chiefly hangs about Bath...where a very strong party of
excellent people consider her to be a most injured woman" (Thackeray). As it is Dorothea Brooke who is the principal female protagonist in Middlemarch, Eliot does not focus
on Rosamond Vincy to the degree that Thackeray does on Becky Sharp. However, a striking characterization of Rosamond does emerge and it suggests that the two women have very similar
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