英文读书报告.doc

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The Reading Report of Vanity Fair
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Thackeray William ociety of the early 19th century. On the time the British was a powerful country having prosperous whole society was controlled by wealthy merchants who got great profits through e*ploiting the workers or oppressing the people of the colonies, meanwhile the war for more colonies between British and France was at the corner.
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As to the current upper class, they were busy in chasing and peting fame and fortune, interested in showing off how elite the lives were. The so-called upper class and successful men paid much attention to how to e*tend their wealth and enjoyed vanity bringingpleasure and a sense of superiority.
The Summary of The Book
The story starts at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, whereBecky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, two major charactersstudied. They are preparing to depart for Amelia's house which is in Russell Square.
At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and conceited Captain George Osborne whom Amelia has been into since she was at a young age, and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy but rich civil-servant working at the East India pany. BeckynoticesMr. Sedley and hopes to marry him in order to get wealthy, but she fails because of warnings from Captain Osborne, Sedley's own shyness, and
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’s own embarrassment over his some foolish behavior after being drunk at Vau*hall.
Staying for not long time, Becky Sharp says farewell to Sedley's family and begin the service of the crude and profligatebaronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has employed her as afamily tutorto his daughters, where she met his second son Rawson Crawley. Her outstanding behavior at Sir Pitt's house gains his favor, and after the premature death of his second wife, he proposes to her. However, he finds that she is already secretly married to