【优秀精品】毕业设计 毕业论文 英语专业 《名利场》；爱情观详解.docVIP

【优秀精品】毕业设计 毕业论文 英语专业 《名利场》；爱情观 Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to Professor Yang Jin, my instructor who gave me valuable advice and instructions with great patience and helped me through the painstaking process of the thesis writing. Secondly, I am really grateful to all the professors and all my teachers in Shanghai Normal University, especially my former writing course teachers and English literature course teachers Professor Qiu Wen, Ji Xiaoling, Ming Jianping, Qin Yuanlian and Zheng Fang. It is my great honor to acquire knowledge from them and have their guidance and support. Then, I would give my thanks to the librarians of Shanghai Normal University who offered me warm and timely help during the process of the collecting of materials and the writing of the thesis. Finally, I owe my most heartfelt thanks to my parents and all my good friends, I can hardly imagine ever completing this thesis without those constant help and encouragement. Abstract Vanity Fair is the masterpiece of William Makepeace Thackeray who is one of the most famous critical realistic novelists in the mid 19th century in England. The story in this novel is developing according to the experience of the traditional woman Amelia Sedley and the non-traditional woman Rebecca Becky Sharp. They are quite vivid and impressive female characters in Thackeray’s age. Vanity Fair represents profoundly the society of London in the Victorian age. Through the contrasting lives of the two heroines, Thackeray shows his admiration and sympathy for women in a money-oriented and status-conscious male world and attacks a corrupted, hypocritical society which advocates the Victorian virtues of marriage and family. Based on a close reading of the novel, and by the method of character analysis and comparison, this thesis will study values of love of the two heroines in Vanity Fair. This thesis contains six chapters. Chapter One is the introdu