Презентация на тему William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)

1811. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College,

Cambridge. However, Thackeray became addicted to gambling and left Cambridge in 1830 without a degree and heavily in debt.
At first Thackeray tried to make a living as a painter but after this ended in failure he turned to journalism. Thackeray moved to Paris where he became the French correspondent for the radical newspaper, The Constitutional.
When The Constitutional ceased publication, Thackeray moved back to England and began contributing articles to a wide variety of newspapers and journals, including The Times, The Morning Chronicle, Fraser's Magazine and Punch Magazine.
Thackeray also began writing novels. Thackeray published his most famous novel, Vanity Fair. This was followed by The History of Henry Esmond, The Newcomes and The Virginians.
Although a successful novelist, he continued to write articles for journals such as Punch Magazine. Thackeray died in 1863.

timid, simple and artless girl. He fell outrightly in

love with Isabella and they married. Thackeray and Isabella Shawe had a happy life during their first years of marriage. But as financial demands forced Thackeray into more and more work, Isabella became isolated and lonely. The happy years of marriage was eclipsed by the tragic death of their second daughter Jane.

Story (1840)
The Irish Sketchbook (1843)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
Mrs. Perkins's Ball (1846)
The

Book of Snobs (1848)
Vanity Fair (1848)
Rebecca and Rowena (1850)
The Paris Sketchbook (1840)
Men's Wives (1852)
The Rose and the Ring (1855)
The Virginians (1859)
Four Georges (1861)
The Adventures of Philip (1862)

person is like a dirty window, they never let

the light shine through.” William Thackeray

Vanity Fair, based on the writer's penetrating observation of human nature, exposes all aspects of it: people are weak and vain, self-absorbed, self-deceived. Three kinds of people are shown and criticized here: social climbers, snobs and egotists.

By tracing the interweaving destinies of two contrasted heroines during the period of Waterloo and its aftermath, the novel is a vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society.

Satire is the most distinguishing feature of the novel. The reader can find satire everywhere — from the title to descriptions and portrayal of characters, from the author's comments to the narrations of the characters' life.

is set at the time of the Napoleonic wars,

and gives a satirical picture of a worldly society, which Thackeray intended to be applied also to his own times. It follows the fortunes of two sharply contrasted characters - Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
The two girls, as unlike in character as they are in fortune, have been educated at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for young ladies.