名利场英文读后感

1、Reading Response to Vanity FairWilliamMakepeaceThackeray, the author of Vanity Fair,was a representative of critical realism in the 19th century. Vanity Fair enjoys a vital position in the English literature history.With lots of truth in detail, Thackeray drew a picture of the society in the first h

2、alf of 19th century.The subtitle of this novel is "A Novel Without a Hero".It is lack of a hero, but full of mental and chatacter description. It is said that this is not only a novel , this is a society in miniature. It is not just in the united kingdom at that time, it is also in today.

3、In average novels, there are always heroes. But Vanity Fair boasts neither heroes nor decent figures. Conversely, all the characters have obvious shortcomings.Under Thackery's pen, Dobbin is stupid while Amelia selfish. The perfect person or near-perfect person don't belong to this work.In s

4、pite of Dobbin,every character is ugly.People who are mild, kind and clever end up sadly while the selfish,dull and malicious guys live a smooth life. From this point of view, we may ask: what is the value of success? Moreover,since success is momentary, the success of the nonenity can never leave a

5、 trace in the history.In the stage of Vanity Fair,honest citizens like Dobbin and Amilia suffer from adversity;the shrewd and sophisticated Becky Sharp gets buckets of money unscrupulously, aiming to pretend to be a person of up-class. At the beginning, Becky Sharp doesn't desire to be a social

6、butterfly, just wants to be the wife of Amelia's brother Joseph, having a place to settle down, eating mutton, and drinking good wine . She doesn't have any relatives. A life of middle class will satisfy her.She never falls in love with any men she dates with .Becky craves for money and stat

7、us all through her life, but fails. She will not gain happiness even if she realized her dream. She used to be a clever and beautiful girl. After being attracted by fame and benefit, she is trapped. Since then she becomes hypocrisy and greedy.She covers her furtive abuse with beautiful,touching and

8、kind words.She could damagingly hurt someone nonchalantly.Behind the mask of "kindness", there is despicable objective for which she trades her friendship,love, marriage, friends and even husband.In order to make the way into the "Kingdom of the noble", she puzzles the poor while

9、 tarnishing herself.From the beginning to the end, Amelia never give up her dream of marrying the hero she respects.And she finally makes it. However,if a woman can not capture the man's heart, then the marriage is a failure. Her fondness turns out to be one-way. Talking about love, only the man

10、 Dobbin is somebody.As the character who impresses me most, Dobbin find his love meaningless after sensing that Amelia is a woman of superficiality and dullness. Dobbin's love for Amelia is remarkable due to its indirectness. He cares little about Becky's hard performance in the Vanity Fair

11、and jeers at her hypocrisy. When Amelia and all the other people praises Becky, he just murmurs" Look at this woman!" When Becky shows her love to him, his loyalty and love for Amelia is testified to be unshakable. He is the cleverest and clearest man in this novel as well as in our world

12、of the moment.Fame and benefit are purchasable, but they are not the whole of life. If one keep seeking them relentlessly, in return, they will grow into temptation which deteriorate his mind and soul. Without innocence, one will lose himself in greed and hypocrisy.Vanity Fair, a true mirror of life

13、, is the place in which everyone struggles for, dreams for and seeks for nothingness.Nothing can be brought away after one's death. But in this fair,men,drunken and sleepy,still chase with all their force.Vanity Fair is not a woeful tragedy, but a ruthless irony of life. Isn't there a Becky Sharp in